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nomenclature, n.|ˈnəʊmənkleɪtjə(r), nəʊˈmɛnklətjə(r)|
[ad. L. nōmenclātūra (Pliny): see nomenclator and -ure. Hence also It., Sp., and Pg. nomenclatura, F. nomenclature.]
1. A name, appellation, designation. Now rare.
1610Histrio-mastix i. 142 Scri. Your appellations? Post. Your names he meanes. The man's learn'd... Scri. Your nomenclature? Post. O stately Scrivener! That's: where dwell ye? 1626Bacon Sylva §839 To say..that there wanteth a term or Nomenclature for it. 1666G. Harvey Morb. Angl. xi. 121 A moist Consumption receives its nomenclature from a moist..expectoration that attends it. 1862E. Burton Bk. Hunter (1863) 243 Societies there are..which identify themselves through their very nomenclature with misfortune and misery. 1891Daily News 11 Nov. 3/3 A certain species of cactus... Its nomenclature is Stapelia gigantea.
†2. The act of assigning names to things. Obs.—1
1622M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. xiii. 347 The Heathen haue reckoned this nomenclature, and imposition of names, for one of Gods owne works.
3. A list or collection of names or particulars; a catalogue, a register.
1635Heywood Hierarchy i. 26 He rank't in the Nomenclature of Fooles. 1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. i. 30, I cannot now give you a nomenclature or list of the particulars. 1683Dryden Life Plutarch in P.'s Lives 75 The catalogue or nomenclature of Plutarch's Lifes, drawn up by his son. 1812W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXVIII. 297 The nomenclature is certainly very copious, and for his materials the author must have consulted a multitude of books. 1846Robertson tr. Schlegel's Philos. Hist. 69 At first, indeed, it is merely a nomenclature of celebrated personages and events.
†b. A list or collection of words or terms, esp. those connected with a particular language or subject; a glossary, a vocabulary. Obs.
1659Howell Lex., To the tru Philologer, The second Volume is a large Nomenclature of the peculiar and proper termes in all the fower languages belonging to severall Arts. 1672tr. Comenius' (title), Visible World: or, A Picture and Nomenclature of all the chief Things that are in the World. 1710Addison Tatler No. 257 ⁋7 There was at the end of the Grammar a little nomenclature, called ‘The Christian Man's Vocabulary’. 1745Observ. Conc. Navy 70 A Nomenclature, Italian and English.
4. The system or set of names for things, etc., commonly employed by a person or community.
1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 211 If therefore we will stand to the Nomenclature of the Ancients [etc.]. 1691Norris Pract. Disc. 243 There's an unimaginable difference even in the very Nomenclature..of Earth and Heaven. 1811Poet. in Ann. Reg. 609 No name so sad as your's is seen In sorrow's nomenclature. 1857Kingsley Two Y. Ago x, He had played, to use his nomenclature, two trump cards running. 1875Lubbock Orig. Civiliz. iv. (ed. 3) 167 No other part of the world where the nomenclature of relationships is so primitive.
b. The terminology of a science.
1789Jefferson Writ. (1859) III. 16 The new nomenclature has..been already proved to need numerous and important reformations. 1815Bakewell Geol. Pref. 9 The pedantic nomenclature and frivolous distinctions recently introduced into mineralogy. 1863Lyell Antiq. Man i. (ed. 3) 3 Some preliminary explanation of the nomenclature adopted in the following pages will be indispensable. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 833 To whom we owe the nomenclature and most of our knowledge of the disease.
c. The collective names given (or to be given) to places in a district or region.
1828Edin. Rev. XLVIII. 438 The nomenclature of the frozen regions is a task which has exercised the ingenuity of all their explorers. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. v. 44, I had no difficulty now in justifying the somewhat poetical nomenclature which Sir John Franklin applied to this locality. 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. V. xxiii. 111 The local nomenclature of modern Glamorgan, with its strongly marked British, English, and French elements.
5. (Without article.) Names or designations forming a set or system.
1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. Introd. (1794) 4 Such a chaos of nomenclature, that the Physicians and Herbarists no longer understood each other. 1810W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XXX. 345 That fund of nomenclature for visual ideas, which is afterwards extended to the abstract ideas. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 205 Are not your differences mere disputes about nomenclature? 188319th Cent. May 857 Fraudulent nomenclature is one of those fine arts in which false science is an adept.
6. (With a and pl.) A particular set or system of names or designations.
1809–10Coleridge Friend (ed. 3) III. 134 Artificial classification for the preparatory purpose of a nomenclature. 1840Carlyle Heroes (1858) 191 Atheistic science babbles poorly of it, with scientific nomenclatures, experiments and what-not. 1872W. Minto Eng. Prose Lit. Introd. 28 We have as yet no nomenclature or notation for describing it technically. 1882A. Macfarlane Consang. 4 In a systematic nomenclature, it is convenient to extend the meaning of the term.
Hence nomenclature v., to name or designate. Also nomenclaturing vbl. n.
1803Edin. Rev. III. 109 Nomenclaturing is likewise a new word. 1816Scott Vis. Paris (ed. 5) 284 That the ticketing of a heap of oyster shells is carrying the system of nomenclaturing a little too far. 1824Examiner 547/2 That part of the frame nomenclatured by little wits the understanding. 1826Sporting Mag. XVIII. 134 The complaint was, by the old jockeys, nomenclatured ‘dropping in the joints’. |