Meanings of appellative in English

By the way, this self-same appellative, Pandora, has been bestowed upon vessels.

Upon the other was bestowed the equally desirable appellative of Cornelia.

Why,' said the prof, 'to employ a vulgarism, perspicuity is my penultimate appellative.'

Wily Will justified his appellative; for, after suspicion arose, he was seen no more.

This dreadful appellative, "a murderer," made my very blood run cold within me.

It assumes the nature and character of an appellative noun, and carries the article The System.

They had a suspicious appellative for their island, true; but not thus seemed it to them.

How different this appellative sounded from him; he said it in such a tone, with such a rogueish look!

Balhara is not a proper name, but an appellative, common to all those kings, like Cosroes and some others.

In truth, an old salt is very much of an old maid, though, strictly speaking, far from deserving that misdeemed appellative.

Her appellative had been bestowed in honor of a high chief, the tallest and goodliest looking gentleman in all the Sandwich Islands.

Bertie was known generally in the brigade as "Beauty," and the appellative, gained at Eton, was in no way undeserved.

The alphabet is general property, and everyone has the right to use it for the creation of a word forming an appellative sound.

It is a fact, well understood, that I begged the students who first gave me the endearing appellative 'mother' not to name me thus.

Not inaptly has the one river-allgentleness, yieldingness, and suavity-wona feminine, the other-all force, impetuosity and stern will-obtained for itself a masculine, appellative!

Indeed, his earlier appellative, "He Wipes His Nose on His Sleeve," was said to have been given to him to indicate his still boy-like habits.