vocable

Example Sentences

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But they who make the noun one and the vocable an other, reckon nine.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

We find ourselves before a Greek vocable reproduced in Tifinar.

From Atlantida by Benôit, Pierre

The vocable e is used to express strong emotion.

From The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by Beckwith, Martha Warren

But some, on the authority of good authors, make the parts only eight; as Aristarchus, and, in our day, Palæmon; who have included the vocable, or appellation, with the noun, as a species of it.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

The initial i in the particle -ile often affects the last or penultimate syllable of the verbal root, thereby causing one of the very rare changes which take place in this vocable.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various