onomasticon
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun A work containing words or names, with their explanation, arranged in alphabetical or other regular order; a dictionary; a vocabulary.
Examples
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My working money—a total of three thousand dollars—is hidden between the pages of a big leather-bound onomasticon.
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My only fear is that the book will be culled, since no one ever uses an onomasticon, but I think Wallingford keeps it because it looks expensive and obscure enough to reassure visiting parents that their kids are learning genius-type stuff.
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Appended to the lives are annotations, explaining any difficulties therein; while no less than five or six indexes adorn each volume: the first an alphabetical list of Saints discussed; the second chronological; the third historical; the fourth topographical; the fifth an onomasticon, or glossary; the sixth moral or dialectic, suggesting topics for preachers.
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So the next time you need to use the word thesaurus, prove you have amazing diction to your listeners and use onomasticon in its place.
Note
The word 'onomasticon' is New Latin, from an Ancient Greek word meaning 'belonging to names'.
