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Definition of Onomastic
1. Adjective. Of or related to onomastics. "He published a collection of his onomastic essays"
Definition of Onomastic
1. a. Applied to a signature when the body of the instrument is in another's handwriting.
Definition of Onomastic
1. Adjective. of, or relating to a personal or place name ¹
2. Adjective. of, or relating to onomastics ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Onomastic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Onomastic
Literary usage of Onomastic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of the Law of Evidence: With Elementary Rules for Conducting by William Mawdesley Best, John Archibald Russell, Appleton Morgan (1882)
"232 onomastic and symbolic signatures ....... 232 Different forms of proof of
handwriting by resemblance, &c. . . 233 1°. ..."
2. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"In the onomastic mode of signature may be seen the succedaneum so naturally
resorted to, ... necessary to the use of the onomastic mode is deficient. ..."
3. Rationale of Judicial Evidence, Specially Applied to English Practice by Jeremy Bentham (1827)
"In the onomastic mode of signature may be seen the succedaneum so naturally
resorted to, where,—ability, sufficient at least to the writing of the words ..."
4. Journal by Royal Institution of Great Britain (1891)
"from two different sources, the one monumental and the other onomastic. ...
To the other or onomastic type belongs the legend of Malagrotta. ..."
5. Kos Between Hellenism and Rome: Studies on the Political, Institutional, and by Kostas Buraselis (2000)
"... seem to appear as a distinct onomastic phenomenon on Kos about the middle of
the first ... for Sabinianus somehow also indicates an onomastic fashion. ..."
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