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n. (plural of appellative English)
Usage examples of "appellatives".
Do simple poetical phrases, descriptive of heavenly phenomena, remain current in the popular mouth after the meanings of appellatives (Bright One, Dark One, &c.
People, he thinks, in making riddles 'would avoid the ordinary appellatives, and the use of little-known names in most mythologies would thus find an intelligible explanation.
Chickens offered their breasts: pies hinted savoury secrets: things mystic, in a mash, with Gallic appellatives, jellies, creams, fruits, strewed the table: as a tower in the midst, the cake colossal: the priestly vesture of its nuptial white relieved by hymeneal splendours.
This is the burden of Jeremy Bentham's quarrel with "question-begging appellatives.
Some times these appellatives were derived from some distinctiveness of dress, as in the case of "Dunga ree Jack".
Takooka was by far the most common of my appellatives, but I answered to them all.