Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A work containing words or names, with their explanation, arranged in alphabetical or other regular order; a dictionary; a vocabulary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
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- noun A
book ,list , orvocabulary ofnames , especially ofpeople .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a list of proper nouns naming persons or places
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Examples
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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.
White Cat Holly Black 2010
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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.
White Cat Holly Black 2010
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My working money—a total of three thousand dollars—is hidden between the pages of a big leather-bound onomasticon.
White Cat Holly Black 2010
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My working money—a total of three thousand dollars—is hidden between the pages of a big leather-bound onomasticon.
White Cat Holly Black 2010
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Meanwhile, if the thesaursus doll had legal definitions printed on it, I believe it would instead be an “onomasticon”.
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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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Mission archéol.institut. français, II, ii, 133; De Vit, Totius latinitatis onomasticon, IV (1887), cites all the passages from ancient authors, Greek and Latin, where mention is made of Memphis;
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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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.
Everything2 New Writeups kal99 2010
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With the deportment of one who grapples with a suppositious onomasticon, this solicitation of manuscription shall be adventured with due diligence.
ShoutWire.com 2009
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With the deportment of one who grapples with a suppositious onomasticon, this solicitation of manuscription shall be adventured with due diligence.
ShoutWire.com 2009
Prolagus commented on the word onomasticon
In Italian, onomastico means name day.
October 17, 2009
qms commented on the word onomasticon
Old telephone tech's once vast icon
Is gone like the dodo and mastodon.
In vain do I look
For a telephone book,
That compendious onomasticon.
October 16, 2015