Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A baptismal or Christian name.
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Examples
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It would be hard to say which English font-name has given the largest number of family names.
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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Those birds which have now assumed a font-name, such as Jack daw, Mag pie, of course occur without it as surnames, e.g. Daw and Pye --
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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Edward I. Pim, as a female font-name, may be from Euphemia, and Siddons appears to belong to Sidonia, while the pretty name Avice appears as Avis and
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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Abraham, the first of which was a common medieval font-name.
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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The name Morris has three other origins (the font-name Maurice, the nickname Moorish, and the local marsh), but both Morris and Morrison are sometimes to be referred to
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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Lastly, the coalescence of John, the commonest English font-name, with Joan, the earlier form of Jane, was inevitable, while the French forms Jean and
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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Thus our name Harvey, no longer usual as a font-name, is Fr. Herod, which represents the heroic German name Herewig, to the second syllable of which belongs such an apparently insignificant name as
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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Millett, but the chief origin of the surname Miles is a contracted form of the common font-name Michael.
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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Packman, Pakeman, and Paxman belong more probably to the font-name Pack (Chapter IX), which also appears in Paxon, either
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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Arthur is a rare medieval font-name, a fact no doubt due to the sad fate of King John's nephew.
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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