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onomasticon
[ on-uh-mas-ti-kon, -kuhn ]
noun
- a list or collection of proper names.
- a list or collection of specialized terms, as those used in a particular field or subject area.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of onomasticon1
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Example Sentences
Eusebius in his Onomasticon uses it as a central point from which the distances of other towns are measured.
Cicero had a high opinion of his intellectual powers, and considered him a great orator (see Orelli, Onomasticon Tullianum).
Eusebius, in his Onomasticon (264-294), places it between Medeba and Dibon.
We may take as an example the famous Onomasticon of Eusebius and Jerome.
"Drill" is used in the same sense in Charleton's "Onomasticon Zoicon," 1668.
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