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Definition of Surnaming
1. surname [v] - See also: surname
Lexicographical Neighbors of Surnaming
Literary usage of Surnaming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Millennial Harbinger by James Wallis, David King (1859)
"surnaming is included in baptism, not in invocation. Invocation "involves" (rather
... invocation alone is meant ; in the other, surnaming alone. ..."
2. Surname Book and Racial History: A Compilation and Arrangement of by General Board of the Relief Society (1918)
"The Mongol raid upon the Seljuk empire checked for a time the surnaming, and gave
to it new form; for when the Osmanli dynasty came into control in the ..."
3. International Numismata Orientalia by Wm Marsden (1874)
"Moreover, he covenanted that his brother Abu-Ahmad should be next in succession
after his son, surnaming him An-!Nasir-li-din-Illah-al-Muwaffak, ..."
4. The Coins of the Ṭúlúni Dynasty by Edward Thomas Rogers (1877)
"He appointed his son Ja'far his successor, surnaming him ... covenanted that his
brother Abú-Ahmad should be next in succession after his son, surnaming him ..."
5. The Sinclairs of England by Thomas] [Sinclair (1887)
"Simon was Simon of Senlis by local surnaming, and he was Simon Sinclair by the
more modern and far more valuable fashion of family lineage. ..."
6. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1901)
"... were busily engaged in gathering the necessary means of sustenance for their
slender little bodies. Audubon and others were right in surnaming him ..."
7. A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury (1882)
"... extravagant of all the Romantics, surnaming himself' Le Lycanthrope,' and
identifying himself with the extravagances of the ..."
8. A Short History of French Literature: (from the Earliest Texts to the Close by George Saintsbury (1901)
"He was perhaps the most extravagant of all the Romantics, surnaming himself ' Le
Lycanthrope,' and identifying himself with the eccentricities of the ..."
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