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Definition of Appellations
1. appellation [n] - See also: appellation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Appellations
Literary usage of Appellations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Moral Science: Theoretical and Practical by Noah Porter (1885)
"Other appellations are not power, ««u infrequently used; as, "the voluntary power,
appellations "the act of choosing or of choice," "election," for> ..."
2. Memoirs and Correspondence of Viscount Castlereagh, Second Marquess of by Robert Stewart Castlereagh (1853)
"Spain, two parties have formed themselves, under the appellations of the ...
and to give there legal security; that the appellations of the Liberal and the ..."
3. A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies by John Hoyland (1816)
"Various appellations of them Their arrival in JL HE different appellations by
which the People whom we denominate Gypsies, have been distinguished, ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"(l53) Such gentle treatment might secure the allegiance of a fierce inscribed
with foreign characters and appellations. The example of a revolution, ..."
5. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1887)
"... nincompoops, and other unsavoury appellations, as ever the cake-bakers of
Lerne cast in the teeth of King ..."
6. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone (1876)
"... considered as a community ; and are distinguished by the harsher appellations
of crimes and misdemeanors. To investigate the first of these sp. ..."
7. Philosophy of Sir William Hamilton, Bart by Sir William Hamilton (1860)
"This it is, which has so generally induced philosophers to bestow on them
appellations marking out the circumstance, that in different points of view, ..."
8. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"... Indian Nicknames of Army Officers — Ridiculous Appellations — Gray Beard —
General Crook's Indian Name — Why they Call Him "The Gray Fox. ..."
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