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n. - A list of proper nouns naming persons or places.

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  • Meanwhile, if the thesaursus doll had legal definitions printed on it, I believe it would instead be an “onomasticon”.
  • 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...
  • 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.
  • 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...
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