appellative
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Now a taxidermied water buffalo head — the ox — watches from above the bar, while the appellative bull is represented across from it in gleaming metal.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
Even despotic governments have condescended to disguise the contributions forcibly levied, by some appellative which should partly conceal its real nature.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
Those which, passing out of the appellative into the descriptive, characterize a river as that which runs violently, that which flows gently, or that which spreads widely.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
The Jains use the term with preference as an appellative of Vardhamāna whom they revere as their Buddha.—48.
From The Gospel of Buddha Compiled from Ancient Records by Paul Carus by Paul Carus
In referring to the root ark, erk, I have omitted the Ir. earc, water, the appellative most nearly concerned.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
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