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
The younger brother softened at the old appellative; he composed his ruffled feathers, and went at it more submissively.
From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 2 of 3) by Frederick William Robinson
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
Why Mister Gallagher, where did you learn that respectful appellative?
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid
The meaning of river, water, must have belonged to this wide-spread root, though I never find it applied as an appellative, apart from the obsolete Dutch word aar, which Pott produces.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
