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  • noun Plural form of nomenclator.

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Examples

  • Mr. Jefferson's correspondence shows that he used several code books of nomenclators.

    Two Centuries On, a Cryptologist 2009

  • The modest, the sober, and the learned are seldom preferred; and the nomenclators, who are commonly swayed by interested motives, have the address to insert in the list of invitations the obscure names of the most worthless of mankind.

    Satyricon 2007

  • Are envy, pride, avarice, and ambition such ill nomenclators, that they cannot furnish appellations for their owners?

    An Argument against Abolishing Christianity 2003

  • He sent likewise his nomenclators about the forums and courts, to invite people of all ages, the old as well as the young, to his brothel, to come and satisfy their lusts; and he was ready to lend his customers money upon interest; clerks attending to take down their names in public, as persons who contributed to the emperor's revenue.

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • The modest, the sober, and the learned are seldom preferred; and the nomenclators, who are commonly swayed by interested motives, have the address to insert in the list of invitations the obscure names of the most worthless of mankind.

    The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • To this desperate kind of encounter he forced one of his nomenclators, even encumbered as he was by wearing the toga.

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • Pliny says, No longer ago than yesterday, two of my _nomenclators_, both about the age of seventeen, were bribed to play the part of critics.

    A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus

  • The modest, the sober, and the learned are seldom preferred; and the nomenclators, who are commonly swayed by interested motives, have the address to insert in the list of invitations the obscure names of the most worthless of mankind.

    The Satyricon — Volume 06: Editor's Notes 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • He sent likewise his nomenclators about the forums and courts, to invite people of all ages, the old as well as the young, to his brothel, to come and satisfy their lusts; and he was ready to lend his customers money upon interest; clerks attending to take down their names in public, as persons who contributed to the emperor's revenue.

    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 04: Caligula Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • The nomenclators have christened her Stilbum calens,

    The Mason-Bees Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

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