Definition of Appellations

1. Noun. (plural of appellation) ¹

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Definition of Appellations

1. appellation [n] - See also: appellation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Appellations

appeaseth
appeasing
appeasing(a)
appeasingly
appeasive
appel
appellable
appellancy
appellant
appellants
appellate
appellate court
appellate courts
appellate jurisdiction
appellation
appellations
appellative
appellatively
appellativeness
appellatives
appellatory
appellee
appellees
appellor
appellors
appels
appenage
appenages
append
appendage

Literary usage of Appellations

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Elements of Moral Science: Theoretical and Practical by Noah Porter (1885)
"Other appellations are not power, ««u infrequently used; as, "the voluntary power, appellations "the act of choosing or of choice," "election," for> ..."

2. Memoirs and Correspondence of Viscount Castlereagh, Second Marquess of by Robert Stewart Castlereagh (1853)
"Spain, two parties have formed themselves, under the appellations of the ... and to give there legal security; that the appellations of the Liberal and the ..."

3. A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies by John Hoyland (1816)
"Various appellations of them Their arrival in JL HE different appellations by which the People whom we denominate Gypsies, have been distinguished, ..."

4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"(l53) Such gentle treatment might secure the allegiance of a fierce inscribed with foreign characters and appellations. The example of a revolution, ..."

5. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1887)
"... nincompoops, and other unsavoury appellations, as ever the cake-bakers of Lerne cast in the teeth of King ..."

6. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone (1876)
"... considered as a community ; and are distinguished by the harsher appellations of crimes and misdemeanors. To investigate the first of these sp. ..."

7. Philosophy of Sir William Hamilton, Bart by Sir William Hamilton (1860)
"This it is, which has so generally induced philosophers to bestow on them appellations marking out the circumstance, that in different points of view, ..."

8. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"... Indian Nicknames of Army Officers — Ridiculous Appellations — Gray Beard — General Crook's Indian Name — Why they Call Him "The Gray Fox. ..."

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