onomasticallyadv.
/ˌɒnəˈmastᵻkli/, U.S. /ˌɔnəˈmæstək(ə)li/, /ˌɑnəˈmæstək(ə)li/ With regard or in relation to onomastics. Cf. onomastics n.
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1950 T. H. Gaster Thespis ii. i. 272 The name R–p–' may be compared..onomastically—with the biblical Beth Rapha.
1974 Times 24 Oct. 18/6 Dunkling (from such Lancashire place-names as Dinkling and Dinkley, and not, as suggested by an onomastically inclined friend of the author's, ‘Doesn't dung cling’).
1994 Jrnl. Eng. Place-name Soc. 26 11 Onomastically—and historically..—the situation is different after 1342 when for the first time two settlements are distinguished.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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