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onomastic, a. and n.|ɒnəʊˈmæstɪk|
[ad. Gr. ὀνοµαστικ-ός of or belonging to naming, f. ὀνοµαστός named, f. ὀνοµάζ-ειν to name. Cf. F. onomastique (c 1600 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
A. adj.
a. Of, relating to, or connected with a name or names, or with the naming of something; consisting of or dealing with names.
1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 242 That most August Assembly most awful (tho' but nominal and onomastick) Synod. 1851Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. I. 349 The nobles draw only from the most scanty family onomastic nomenclatures. 1879Times 29 Aug., The Russian Grenadier regiment bearing the title of Frederick William III..when lately celebrating its onomastic festival was [etc.]. 1880Contemp. Rev. Aug. 574 The system which rests on onomastic resemblances of a highly imaginative philology.
b. Used in reference to the autograph subscription of a legal document (of which the body is in the handwriting of another person): see quots.
By Bentham an onomastic signature or subscription—the affixing of one's name—was distinguished from a symbolic signature, effected by a seal or mark; both of these, as mere signatures, he distinguished from holograph. Later writers appear to have mistaken his meaning.
1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) II. 449 Modes of authentication ab intrà:—1. Holography; 2. Signature (onomastic or symbolic). Ibid. 461 Sigillation, a succedaneum to (or rather mode of) onomastic signature. 1849W. M. Best Treat. Princ. Evid. §210 A document wholly in the handwriting of a party is said to be an autograph or holograph; where it is in the handwriting of another person and only signed by the party, the signature may be called ‘onomastic’. 1850Burrill Law Dict. & Gloss., Onomastic, a term sometimes applied to the signature of an instrument, where the body of it is in the handwriting of another person.
B. n.
†1. A writer of an Onomasticon; a vocabularist, a lexicographer. Obs.
1609[Bp. W. Barlow] Answ. Nameless Cath. 330 Let all the Onomastiks, and Nomenclators, or Mathematicians, or Schoolemen be searched. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 349 The learned Lexicographer, Francis Pomey (who being a French-Man should understand the Nature and Names of Garlick and Shalot the best of any Onomasticks).
†2. An assumed name. Obs. nonce-use.
1653Manton Smectymnuus Rediv. Pref., I suppose the reverend authors were willing to lie hid under this onomastic [‘Smectymnuus’] partly that [etc.].
3. pl. The study of the origin and formation of proper names, esp. of persons.
The sing. in quot. 1930 is unusual.
1930T. S. Eliot tr. St.-J. Perse's Anabasis x. 67 The man learned in sciences, in onomastic. 1936New Yorker 8 Feb. 54 (heading) The advance of municipal onomastics. 1957M. Aurousseau Rendering of Geogr. Names i. 1 The scientific study of names as names, that is, of the human habit of naming things, is the science of onomastics. 1972J. L. Dillard Black English iii. 135 The subject has not yet been investigated, but it seems possible that the West African influence on Southern onomastics has been very great indeed. 1973Amer. Speech 1969 XLIV. 221 This collection of essays..covers the nature of language, cognition, onomastics, [etc.]. |