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Definition of Agnomens
1. agnomen [n] - See also: agnomen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agnomens
Literary usage of Agnomens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life in Brazil by Thomas Ewbank (1856)
"... nearly all Marias have agnomens expressive of popular ... and agnomens are
conferred on females, and feminine names not withheld from males. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1880)
"... LENTULUS (with the agnomens ... SCAPULA, SCIPIO (with the agnomens Africanas,
Asiática», Anna, ..."
3. Life in Brazil by Thomas Ewbank (1856)
"... nearly all Marias have agnomens expressive of popular ... and agnomens are
conferred on females, and feminine names not withheld from males. ..."
4. Hermes by Ernst Willibald Emil Hübner, Georg Kaibel, Carl Robert, Friedrich Leo, Georg Wissowa (1869)
"... unmittelbar nach dem Haupt- als zweiten Namen die Benennung Optimus führt, so
weist das Fehlen dieses agnomens jene Sendung in oder vor das J. 1134). ..."
5. Sohrab and Rustem: The Epic Theme of a Combat Between Father and Son; a by Murray Anthony Potter (1902)
"Warriors of the plains tribes used to assume agnomens or battle names, and I have
known some of them who enjoyed as many as five or six. ..."
6. How to Catalogue a Library by Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1889)
"... and others have come down to us without agnomens. Having dealt with the chief
difficulties connected with the arrangement of the name of an author when ..."
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