nomenclatorn.
/ˈnəʊmənˌkleɪtə/, U.S. /ˈnoʊmənˌkleɪdər/ΘΚΠ
society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > prefect or monitor
prepositor1519
monitor1530
nomenclator?1566
propositor1633
praepostor1768
monitress1795
prefect1826
?1566–7 G. Buchanan Opinion Reformation Univ. St. Andros in Vernacular Writings (1892) 8 The nomenclatouris to haif charge to gather the lessons writtin.., and bring thayme to the regent, and schaw hym quha has faltis.
2. † b. A person who compiles lists of names or words; a lexicographer. Obsolete. rare.† c. A person who lists things or people by name; a pedant; a name-dropper. Obsolete. rare.
a. Originally: †a book containing collections or lists of names or words (obsolete). Later: spec. a book detailing the nomenclature of a group of organisms or natural objects.Originally used in the titles of such works.
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the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > lexicography > [noun] > vocabulary or collection of words
vocabulist?1523
vocabular1530
vocabuler1530
vocabulary1532
nomenclator1585
wordbook1598
verbal1599
lexicon1647
nomenclature1659
vocabula1698
abecedarium1796
vocab1836
vocabulary book1854
1585 I. Higins (title) The Nomenclator, or remembrancer of Adrianus Junius, physician.
?1608 T. Bodley in Reliquiæ Bodleianæ (1703) 79 I have sent you, by this Carrier, three several Nomenclators, which I have only borrowed.
1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God viii. xxxi. 363 The full importance of this word..will not be easily found in ordinary Lexicons or Nomenclators.
1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 355 'Tis then most natural..to furnish him..with a Nomenclator; containing a competent number of Names.
1707 R. Browne (title) The English Expositor improv'd, a Complete Dictionary,..also an Index and Nomenclator.
a1750 M. D'Assigny Coll. of Poems (1763) V. 115 Then studious reads what Belgian authors writ, And drains whole nomenclators for their wit.
1776 W. J. Mickle in tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad vi. 258 (note) Joam Franco Barreto, whose short nomenclater is printed as an index to the Portuguese editions of the Lusiad, informs us, [etc.]
1868 H. A. Weddell tr. A. de Candolle Laws of Bot. Nomencl. 14 The ‘Nomenclator’ of Steudel..of 1821, had about 55 synonyms for every 100 admitted species.
1887 Amer. Naturalist 21 166 This illustrated nomenclator renders the work of great value to the artist as well as to the naturalist.
1926 Science 3 Sept. 228/2 Sooner rather than later he [sc. the zoologist] must even refer to original papers or to complicated nomenclators.
c1936 E. T. Schenk & J. H. McMasters Procedure in Taxon. v. 13 To facilitate this tedious task the various nomenclators listing such names may be consulted.
1983 P. Gilbert & C. J. Hamilton Entomol. ii. 21 Name-compendia (nomenclators) for the very early literature were completed up to 1850.
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the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > lexicography > [noun] > vocabulary or collection of words > one who compiles
vocabulist1545
nomenclator1609
1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 330 Let all the Onomastiks, and Nomenclators, or Mathematicians, or Schoolemen be searched, and 'twill not be found.
a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) Pref. sig. B6 Any Nomenclator, or Dictionarie maker.
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the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > narrator
teller1340
expositora1398
accounterc1400
reporterc1405
provinoura1475
recounter1485
relator1588
relater1598
repeater1598
narrator1599
retailer1607
nomenclator1628
enarrator1632
accountant1655
relatist1656
narrater1758
narratrix1796
narratress1798
1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xxxiii. sig. F12 Hee is a great Nomen-clator of Authors.
1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. viii. 181 You are become of a sudden a wonderful Nomenclator of our Statutes.
1789 ‘A. Pasquin’ Children of Thespis in Poems II. 130 Shakespeare is mangled by weak commentators, Who gore his fine form like absurd nomenclators.
3. † b. gen. A person who publicly announces or privately informs someone of the names of guests, etc.; a person who performs introductions. Obsolete.
a. Roman History. A servant whose duties were to inform his master of the names of the people he encountered, esp. when canvassing for office. Also: one in charge of guest lists and seating arrangements at banquets.
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the mind > language > naming > [noun] > servant who informs of names
nomenclator1601
society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > usher > at banquet
nomenclator1601
name-caller1910
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 437 A certain Nomenclator or Controller belonging to one of our prodigall and wastful spendthrifts here at Rome.
a1680 S. Butler Satires & Misc. Poetry & Prose (1928) i. 72 Roman Noble men..Had Nomenclators in their Traines to clame Acquaintance, with the Meanest, by his Name.
1713 Guardian 14 July 1/1 When a great Man stood for any publick Office,..he had always one of these Nomenclators at his Elbow.
1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero I. ii. 77 The use of these Nomenclators was contrary to the laws.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) III. xxx. 208 The nomenclators, who are commonly swayed by interested motives, have the address to insert in the list of invitations, the obscure names of the most worthless of mankind.
1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii II. iv. iii. 234 Diomed..had appointed a nomenclator or appointer of places to each guest.
1846 H. W. Herbert Roman Traitor i. iv. 54 The assistance of the nomenclator..was required before he was addressed by name.
1886 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 128/2 The author stands in the vestibule of that Temple of Fame..and greets the Manes of the departed as readily as a professional nomenclator.
1924 W. B. McDaniel Rom. Private Life viii. 109 Their lord..sometimes needed the service of his nomenclator or name-caller to whisper some account of approaching nobodies.
1985 K. Mitchell A.D. Anno Domini i. xi. 87 She leaned back slightly so her nomenclator could whisper a prompting in her bejeweled ear.
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the mind > language > naming > [noun] > one who announces names
nomenclator1601
1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love v. v. sig. Lv Cup. Hedon, thy maister is next. Mer. What will Cupid turne Nomenclator, and cry them? View more context for this quotation
1616 B. Jonson Epicœne iii. vi, in Wks. I. 562 Daw...My ladie Havghty, this my lady Centavre, mistresse Dol Mavis,..Mor. What nomenclator is this!
1641 J. Milton Animadversions 5 Their names are knowne to the all-knowing power above, and..doutlesse they wreck not whether you or your Nomenclator know them or not.
1713 J. Addison in Guardian 14 July 1/2 I have with much Pains..qualified my self for a Nomenclator to this great City.
1762 G. Colman Musical Lady ii. 21 Your Nomenclatore to introduce you to the Virtuosi.
1796 F. Burney Camilla I. ii. ii. 167 I am not of the first accuracy as the gentleman's nomenclator.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality iii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 58 ‘You forget,’..said her nomenclator, ‘that the young gentleman comes here to discharge suit and service in name of his uncle.’
1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham II. iii. 23 Let me dispatch Lady Babbleton, and I'll then devote myself to being your nomenclator.
4. A person who devises or assigns names, esp. one who names organisms or natural objects. Cf. nomenclaturist n. Also figurative.
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the mind > language > naming > [noun] > one who or that which gives a name
christenerOE
impositor1493
denominator1577
imposer1597
name-giver1610
nomenclator1616
namer1627
entitler1653
name-caller1953
the mind > language > naming > nomenclature or terminology > [noun] > one who devises
nomenclator1785
terminologist1806
nomenclaturist1809
1616 J. Taylor Vrania xi. sig. A8v And how th'eternall Nomenclator taught Thee name all Creatures that were euer nam'de.
1647 A. Cowley Her Name in Mistress v Adam (God's Nomenclator) could not frame One that enough should signify.
1687 T. Heyrick New Atlantis i. 18 These, and a numerous Spawn of lesser fame, To which Heavens Nomenclator ne're gave name.
1711 J. Swift Argument abolishing Christianity in Misc. Prose & Verse 166 Are Envy, Pride, Avarice and Ambition such ill Nomenclators, that they cannot furnish Appellations for their Owners?
1770 Philos. Trans. 1769 (Royal Soc.) 59 503 According to the Chinese interpretation of the five resembling characters, they are simple ideas, or symbols, not characterized by the farther circumstantiating lines; and are, without coherence, in the way of Nomenclator.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. viii. 81 The science which distinguishes the true Botanist from the mere Herbarist or Nomenclator.
1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy I. Introd. 18 Those who collect, and the nomenclators properly so called, do not like these doubtful sorts, which it is too difficult to arrange under the known genera.
1845 N. P. Willis Dashes at Life with Free Pencil vii. 19 Set it down in your books, Ernest—we are our own nomenclators—the belle as well as the hero!
1874 N. Amer. Rev. July 82 He seemed to put forward another theory, to which some successful nomenclator..immediately applied the title of ‘ding-dong theory’.
1880 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 171 1048 The name Moloch horridus is expressive of the emotions excited by its physiognomy.., and the nature of such emotion may be judged by the nomenclator's admission that ‘the external appearance of this Lizard is the most ferocious of any that I know’.
1905 Science 9 June 900/1 Holotype... The only specimen possessed by the nomenclator at the time; the one specimen definitely selected or indicated by the nomenclator as the type.
1943 Brittonia 4 366 We do not refer to those unseemly monstrosities perpetrated by various European nomenclators during the last quarter century.
1999 Times 24 Sept. 26/3 The worst nomenclators are the professionals. Manufacturers should employ poets to name their new products.
Derivatives
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the mind > language > naming > [noun] > one who or that which gives a name > office of
nomenclatorship1695
1695 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. III. iv. 184 This Nomenclatorship of Adam.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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