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
This appellative is one belonging to a sacred place of pilgrimage sacred to Ayonija, whose miraculous birth was thus brought about.
From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Thomas Inman
“But somebody must have sent them, aunties,” said Marie, who dropped into the diminutive, and slightly endearing, appellative quite naturally, now that she found herself being exalted by her relatives.
From A Double Knot by George Manville Fenn
This familiar appellative had followed him into the army.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
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
