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Cognominal

Cognominal \Cog*nom"i*nal\, a. Of or pertaining to a cognomen; of the nature of a surname.

Cognominal

Cognominal \Cog*nom"i*nal\, n. One bearing the same name; a namesake. [Obs.]
--Sir T. Browne.

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cognominal

a. Of or relating to a cognomen. n. (context obsolete English) One bearing the same name; a namesake.

Usage examples of "cognominal".

Nothing of him is left but the immortal nose, which, when his brazen head had tumbled to pieces, crying "Time's Past," was the only palpable fragment among its minutely pulverised atoms, and which is still resplendent over the portals of its cognominal college.