Crossword clues for onomasticon
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Onomasticon \On`o*mas"ti*con\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? (sc.?), fr. ?. See Onomastic.] A collection of names and terms; a dictionary; specif., a collection of Greek names, with explanatory notes, made by Julius Pollux about a. d. 180.
Wiktionary
n. A book, list, or vocabulary of names, especially of people.
WordNet
n. a list of proper nouns naming persons or places
Wikipedia
Onomasticon may refer to:
- Eusebius' Onomasticon
- Onomasticon of Amenope
- Onomasticon of Joan Coromines
- Onomasticon of Julius Pollux
- Onomasticon of Johann Glandorp
- Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum (1897), or Searle's Onomasticon, by William George Searle
Usage examples of "onomasticon".
He wants me to read the little book, the one he called the Onomasticon, over and over.
Ouro in the Copto-Arabic Onomasticon is said to signify the same: but I should think, that this was only a secondary acceptation of the original term.
Any place sacred to the Deity Saron was liable to have this name: hence we find plains so called in the Onomasticon of Eusebius.
Even as I said it, I realized that the hole he was in was probably the same hole I had fallen into some several seasons ago when I had found the Gamesmen of Barish and the book Windlow called the Onomasticon.