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▪ I. nominate, pa. pple., ppl. a., and n.|ˈnɒmɪneɪt|
Also 6 nomynate, nominat.
[ad. L. nōmināt-us, pa. pple. of nōmināre: see next.]
A. pa. pple.
†1. Named, called, entitled. Obs.
c1485Digby Myst. (1882) ii. 414 By name I am nominate the god belyall. 1513Bradshaw St. Werburge 2338 The yssue..Was a noble prynce, nomynate Colrede. 1567Trial Treas. (1850) 30 As I, being properly nominate Juste, Am here associate with Contentation.
†2. Sc. Mentioned by name; noted. Obs.
1570Satir. Poems Reform. xx. 92, I pans and muse how thay excuse This murther..Quhair it is nominate. 1583Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 621 The uthers persones quhilkes wer present specialie nominat in the uther tickit gevin to us. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. Prol. 56 The maist nominat amang thame is this.
†3. Nominated, appointed. Obs.
1546Yorks. Chantry Surv. (Surtees) 276 Incumbent..nominate by the mayor and bretherne. 1590H. Barrow in Confer. iii. 57 Your Parsons are nominat by the Patron. a1648Ld. Herbert Hen. VIII (1683) 370 Sir Thomas More, or the Bishop of London, to be nominate by the King.
B. ppl. a.
1.
†a. Having the character of a descriptive name. Obs. rare—1.
b. Having a special name.
c. Mentioning a particular name.
1610W. Folkingham Art of Surv. iii. i. 65 Vocall Propriety denotates the Properties of particulars by due Appellation, which is either Nominate or Cognominate. The first is..either Generall; as Up-land and Maritime..; or Speciall; as Wealdes, Woulds, Plaines. 1818Colebrooke Obligations 18 Those, which have an appropriate denomination and distinctive proper name, denoting their particular effect and esential properties, are nominate or named contracts. 1838W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 674 A nominate right is a right possessing a nomen juris, the use of which defines its boundaries. Ibid., The nominate and innominate contracts illustrate the doctrine. 1880Muirhead Gaius ii. §128 A nominate disherison.. might either precede or follow the institution.
d. Taxonomy. (See quot. 1967.)
1948A. L. Rand Mammals Eastern Rockies 100 The Alberta form is the nominate subspecies [of badger]: Taxidea taxus taxus Schreber. 1967R. E. Blackwelder Taxonomy xix. 398 A nominate taxon is the subordinate taxon which contains the type of the subdivided ‘higher’ taxon. 1968Perring & Sell Critical Suppl. Atlas Brit. Flora 146 The question of the use of the nominate sub⁓species in this case [sc. Eleocharis palustris] is complex and disputed. 1971Nature 10 Dec. 360/1 The European stock [of the Atlantic salmon], binominally named by Linnaeus, must become the nominate subspecies and, therefore, should bear the name Salmo salar salar Linnaeus. 1974New Phytologist LXXIII. 802 The presence of the nominate subspecies in some cases..and not in others..is not explained.
2. Nominated to an office. Chiefly Sc. Law.
1681Stair Instit. i. vi. §5. 56 There be three kinds of Tutors... The first is, Tutor Testamentar, or nominate. a1768Erskine Instit. Law Scot. i. vii. §1 (1773) 114. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 395 The executor, in the former case, being called an executor-nominate. Ibid. 1016 A tutor-nominate or testamentary is he whom the father..has nominated, either in a testament, or in some other writing. 1864Standard 16 Apr., The bishop nominate..was once a slave boy.
†C. n. A nominee. Obs. rare—1.
1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 148 After two Monethes imprisonment in the Conclaue [they] were forced to relent and to choose one of his nominates.
▪ II. nominate, v.|ˈnɒmɪneɪt|
Also 6 nomynate, 6–7 nominat.
[f. L. nōmināt-, ppl. stem of nōmināre to name, f. nōmin-, nōmen name.]
1. trans. To call by the name of; to call, name, entitle, designate. Now somewhat rare.
1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde 7 The fourth be nominatyd the ouerthwart muskles. 1582Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 21 Theese rancks the Italian dwellers doo nominat altars. 1626Middleton Anything for Quiet Life i. i, She has a book, which I may truly nominate Her Black Book. 1657J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 92 The same men who nominate us Papists for onely acknowledging the Pope's authority. 1748Anson's Voy. i. x. 141 This Ocean being nominated Pacific. 1799C. Cooke in Beddoes Contrib. Phys. & Med. Knowl. 393 These are all the diseases that can with propriety be nominated constitutional. 1824Scott St. Ronan's iv, It must stand Munt-grunzie in the stamped paper, being so nominated in the ancient writs and evidents thereof. 1868Helps Realmah (1876) 90 Those animals whom we are pleased to nominate ‘the lower creation’.
†b. To give a name or names to; to provide with a name. Obs.
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxxviii. §2 If they that first doe impose names, did alwayes vnderstand exactly the nature of that which they nominate. 1658Sir T. Browne Hydriot. 16 The City of Norwich..was enlarged, builded, and nominated by the Saxons. 1697J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 294 We do not nominate them precisely according to what we do then actually know.
2. To mention or specify by name. (Very common c 1600–80; now somewhat rare.).
1593G. Harvey Pierce's Super. 205, I could nominate the man, that could teach the Delphical Oracle, and the ægyptian Crocodile to play their parts. 1601Dent Pathw. Heaven 141, I pray you, nominate the oathes which are so rife and common amongst vs. 1620E. Blount Horæ Subs, 378 There be in this towne multiplicity of Palaces.., of which I will but nominate two. 1680Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) 13 Consider how many persons have been ruined by play. I could nominate a great many.
1801E. Helme St. Marg. Cave III. 185 He ordered him to hasten to an obscure part of the city which he exactly nominated. 1846McCulloch Acc. Brit. Empire (1854) I. 423 Leases held on the longest of two lives..expire at an average..every 64 years, if boys and girls of 4 years of age are nominated.
3. To name, fix, appoint, specify. Now rare.
1564Child-Marriages 197 Richard..said, ‘by my trouth, I will marry the bie such a Day’,—& did nominate the day. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. i. iii. 150 Let the forfeite Be nominated for an equall pound Of your faire flesh. 1637Prynne Will in Documents (Camden) 98 The somme of tenne pounds, to be imployed..as my nephew..shall nominate and directe. 1680Aubrey Lives (1898) II. 143 Being the challengee it belonged to him to nominate place and weapon. 1716Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 187 Their scruples of keeping the day the King nominates without a church appointment. 1751Eliza Heywood Betsy Thoughtless IV. 32 Sir Ralph Trusty..had the honour of nominating the day for the celebration of their nuptials.
4. To appoint (a person) by name to hold some office or discharge some duty.
1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 366 That the king shoulde within vi monethes nominate some man to the Bishop of Rome. 1582N. Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. i. lxiii. 128 b, First he would nominate him that should remaine in the Indias for Captaine generall. 1603Knolles Hist. Turkes (1621) 976 To honour him the more, [he] nominated him the Generall of his armie against the Persians. 1653Clarke Papers (Camden) III. 5 They proceede in nominating persons in the severall counties to sitt as a Counsell. 1681–2Wood Life 3 Feb. (O.H.S.) III. 4 Henry Aldrich..nominated or elected Canon of Ch. Ch. by the commissioners. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. ix. 330 The judges could not meet there..to nominate the sheriffs. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. I. 114 The decurions, who had nominated a magistrate, were..held bound as sureties for him. 1874Green Short Hist. vii. §1. 341 The House of Commons was crowded with members nominated by the Royal Council.
absol.1688Pr. of Orange's Declar., w. Animadv. 23 Whether before he nominate, he do not satisfy himself that his Nominê be a Man on whom he may rely. 1761Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) IV. lxii. 622 They chose seven persons, who should nominate to such commands as became vacant.
b. To propose, or formally enter, (one) as a proper person or candidate for election.
1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 101 The nomination being ended, the chiefe of the Companies demaunde of the people which of these three thus nominated, they are willing to elect. 1774Johnson 21 Feb. in Boswell, We are thinking to augment our Club, and I am desirous of nominating you. 1828–32Webster, s.v., Any member of the assembly or meeting nominates, that is, proposes to the chairman the name of a person whom he desires to have elected. 1857Toulmin Smith Parish 171 It is declared that any person nominated may send in, before the day of election, his refusal to act. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 83 Any one may challenge the person nominated and start another candidate.
5. In horse breeding, to choose (a mare) as suitable for mating to a particular stallion.
1950H. Wynmalen Horse Breeding vi. 109 The considerations set out in the preceding chapter will be found helpful in selecting a suitable stallion to which to nominate our mare. 1972Harper's Bazaar Apr. 63/1 [The mare] gave the stallion she was nominated to such a hell of a time he wouldn't touch her with a barge-pole. |