The distinction between proper names and appellative names is explained in chapter 4 of Book I. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.idcpublishers.info/philosophy/publications/281_nizolius_academia.pdf]
The appellative faculty of children. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : the appellative function of some primitive rites. From Dictionary.com.
In older writings the term Arab is used only as an appellative, meaning "desert," or "people of the desert," or. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
'Name' meant a proper name, and 'appellative' a common term. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
(Pelagios, of or belonging to the sea) the Celtic appellative. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election] Reference
Upon the other was bestowed the equally desirable appellative of Cornelia. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference
This was the ability of a univocal appellative noun to name different things. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms] Reference
How it came by this suspicious appellative there are many traditions to explain. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
Will justified his appellative; for, after suspicion arose, he was seen no more. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
Proper names, naming single items, are contrasted with appellative names, naming many. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms] Reference
And it is certain that all proper or individual names have been originally appellative or general. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
“I am coming, — I am coming,” said the person who answered to that appellative; and then reiterating hastily. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference
“Ay, or in the case of a man having made the country too hot for him under his own proper appellative,” said Mr. Touchwood. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Ronan's Well] Reference
"Iglesias," said I, "we divined how Mollychunkamug had its name; now, as to Moosetocmaguntic, -- hence that elongated appellative?". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference
Matriculation in the University, not the taking of a degree in it, introduces one into the society of the educated with its appellative. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
Exactly there those sentences should have caught his eye which make very clear what may be called the "appellative character" of the book. From Wordnik.com. [Heidegger and Nazism: An Exchange] Reference
Doreen O'Lone impresses me as a very musical appellative. From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie Child] Reference
Ai; and this same term is used elsewhere as an appellative. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood] Reference
Hebrew word, taken as an appellative, and not as a proper name. From Wordnik.com. [Antiquities of the Jews] Reference
The appellative "Elias" is in fact both a personal name and a title. From Wordnik.com. [Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern] Reference
"Dour" -- Douro -- so common an appellative for rivers in many parts of. From Wordnik.com. [Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1] Reference
It is to be noted that Paul scarcely ever uses that simple appellative. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.] Reference
Wily Will justified his appellative; for, after suspicion arose, he was seen no more. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley — Volume 2] Reference
It assumes the nature and character of an appellative noun, and carries the article The System. From Wordnik.com. [Pipefuls] Reference
This appellative, self-inflicted, reeks of self-loathing, but could also represent a desire to die. From Wordnik.com. [The Comics Journal] Reference
"Solid St. George," was his appellative by his friends, and his enemies did not grudge him the title. From Wordnik.com. [The Disowned — Complete] Reference
Nature, and check, by an admonitory appellative, the active spirit that lives in the tongue of woman?. From Wordnik.com. [Roughing It in the Bush] Reference
"Professor Hamblin," interposed Paul, gently rebuking his friend for using that disrespectful appellative. From Wordnik.com. [Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim] Reference
"From this pleasantry of my Lord Oxford, the appellative Martinus Scriblerus took its rise" (Deane Swift). From Wordnik.com. [The Journal to Stella] Reference
But ancient as this appellative is, it is also so familiar in modern use, that the Translator feared to hazard it. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey of Homer] Reference
Stanley, of which I have nothing particular to say; but the other is distinguished by an appellative somewhat remarkable. From Wordnik.com. [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2] Reference
"Ay, or in the case of a man having made the country too hot for him under his own proper appellative," said Mr. Touchwood. From Wordnik.com. [St. Ronan's Well] Reference
The alphabet is general property, and everyone has the right to use it for the creation of a word forming an appellative sound. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
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