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appellative |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Appellative \Ap*pel"la*tive\, a. [L. appellativus fr appellare: cf F. appelatif See {Appeal}.] 1. Pertaining to a common name serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming. --Cudworth. 2. (Gram.) Common, as opposed to {proper}; denominative of a class. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Appellative \Ap*pel"la*tive\, n. [L. appelativum sc nomen.] 1. A common name in distinction from a proper name A common name or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings, or for universal ideas. Thus tree is the name of all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name on the other hand, stands for a single thing as Rome, Washington, Lake Erie. 2. An appellation or title; a descriptive name God chosen it for one of his appellatives to be the Defender of them --Jer. Taylor. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: appellative adj 1: pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun 2: inclined to or serving for the giving of names "the appellative faculty of children"; "the appellative function of some primitive rites" [syn: {naming(a)}] n : identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others [syn: {appellation}, {denomination}, {designation}]
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