English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
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Appellative
(a.)
Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class.
Appellative
(n.)
A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A
common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or
species of beings, or for universal ideas. Thus, tree is the name of
all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of
things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand,
stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie.
Appellative
(n.)
An appellation or title; a descriptive name.
Appellatively
(adv.)
After the manner of nouns appellative; in a manner
to express whole classes or species; as, Hercules is sometimes used
appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man.
Appellativeness
(n.)
The quality of being appellative.
Appellatory
(a.)
Containing an appeal.
Appellee
(n.)
The defendant in an appeal; -- opposed to appellant.
Appellee
(n.)
The person who is appealed against, or accused of crime;
-- opposed to appellor.
Appellor
(n.)
The person who institutes an appeal, or prosecutes
another for a crime.
Appellor
(n.)
One who confesses a felony committed and accuses his
accomplices.
Appenage
(n.)
See Appanage.
Append
(v. t.)
To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing
is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was
appended to the column.
Append
(v. t.)
To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to
annex; as, notes appended to this chapter.
Appendage
(n.)
Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or
greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house.
Appendage
(n.)
A subordinate or subsidiary part or organ; an external
organ or limb, esp. of the articulates.
Appendaged
(a.)
Furnished with, or supplemented by, an appendage.
Appendance
(n.)
Something appendant.
Appendant
(v. t.)
Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage
for a considerable time; -- said of a thing of inheritance belonging to
another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson,
common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to
a freehold, a seat in church to a house.
Appendant
(v. t.)
Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal
appendant to a paper.
Appendant
(n.)
Anything attached to another as incidental or
subordinate to it.