appellative
Example Sentences
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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
It is indeed easy to conceive, that Simon might have been commonly distinguished by either appellative, but this we can only conjecture; neither Evangelist adds a word to explain the point.
From An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by Greenleaf, Simon
With every proper name the etymological operation is by one degree more difficult than with an appellative....
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew
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 Ferguson, Robert
The only appellative for a river which I find derived from its sound is the Sanscrit nadi, Hind. nuddy, from nad, sonare.
From The River-Names of Europe by Ferguson, Robert
