vocable

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And, though for Oxford men the savour of the name itself has long evaporated through its local connexion, many things show that for the Founder himself it was no empty vocable.

From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

Thus, ‘people’ is indeed ‘populus’, but it was ‘peuple’ first, while ‘popular’ is a direct transfer of a Latin vocable into our English glossary.

From English Past and Present by Palmer, Abram Smythe

We find ourselves before a Greek vocable reproduced in Tifinar.

From Atlantida by Benôit, Pierre

But the Maya vocable Thallac, signifies a thing without steadiness, like the sea.

From Vestiges of the Mayas or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa by Le Plongeon, Augustus

The word, which Littleton called "an heptastic vocable," comprehended the names of the seven Lord Mayors in whose mayoralties the Monument was begun, continued, and completed.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter