Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In law, one who nominates.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A nominator.

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  • noun obsolete A nominator.

Etymologies

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See nominate and -or.

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Examples

  • Feudalism demands to divide the power with theocracy before the inevitable advent of the people, who, as ever, will take the lion’s share—Quia nominor leo.

    II. This Will Destroy That. Book V 1917

  • He took much more than he gave, in obedience to the law of genius, which gives in vain, but in love always takes more than it gives, _quia nominor leo_, because it is genius, and genius half consists in the instinctive absorption of all that is great in its surroundings and making it greater still.

    Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House Romain Rolland 1905

  • _quia nominor Poleo_, has twelve millions, plus four millions, -- sixteen millions.

    Napoleon the Little Victor Hugo 1843

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