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Definition of Onomasticon
1. Noun. A list of proper nouns naming persons or places.
Definition of Onomasticon
1. n. 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.
Definition of Onomasticon
1. Noun. A book, list, or vocabulary of names, especially of people. ¹
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Medical Definition of Onomasticon
1. 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. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. (sc), fr. See Onomastic. (01 Mar 1998)
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Literary usage of Onomasticon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ancient Egypt: Her Testimony to the Truth of the Bible : Being an by William Osburn (1846)
"... onomasticon. MANY verifications of names having occurred in the course of this
inquiry, which, though likely to be of service in biblical criticism, ..."
2. The Holy City: Historical, Topographical, and Antiquarian Notices of Jerusalem by George Williams, Robert Willis (1849)
"The Greek of the onomasticon, supported as it is by the literal translation of
the Latin of St Jerome, is pronounced " at best a mere assertion—[as all the ..."
3. A Dictionary of the Bible: Dealing with Its Language, Literature, and by Samuel Rolles Driver, James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie (1908)
"AD (onomasticon, sv .... the site was known as near Tabor, but it was also wrongly
identified with Achshaph (see onomasticon, ..."
4. A New General Biographical Dictionary by Hugh James Rose (1857)
"XX. to hia Life of Leo X. This work was first printed under the title of onomasticon,
at Milan, in 1483, fol., ..."
5. Was Israel Ever in Egypt?, Or, A Lost Tradition by George Henry Bateson Wright (1895)
"The present chapter will be a sort of onomasticon, in which the ordinarily accepted
derivations of the ancestors of the Israelites and some adjacent tribes ..."
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