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cognominal, a. and n.|kɒgˈnɒmɪnəl|
[in sense 1, f. L. cognōmin-is having the same name; in 2, f. cognōmin-, stem of cognomen: see -al1.]
A. adj.
1. Having the same name or cognomen, like-named.
1656Blount Glossogr., Cognominal, that hath one and the same name or sir-name. 1766Entick London IV. 128 Distinguished from other cognominal dedications, by the name of St. James's chapel..on the wall. 1831Peacock Crotchet Castle ix, The immortal nose..which is still resplendent over the portals of its cognominal college [Brasenose].
2. Of or pertaining to a cognomen or surname.
1659Pearson Creed (1741) 194 The second [name] Pilatus as a cognominal addition distinguishing from the rest descending from the same family. 1855W. H. Mill Applic. Panth. Princ. (1861) 171 A cognominal epithet..of the elder son. 1866J. B. Rose tr. Ovid's Fasti i. 647 No Roman house had grade cognominal Above the Fabii; titled above all As ‘Maxima’.
†B. n. One who or that which has the same name as another; a namesake. Obs. rare.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xxiv. 170 The Dog [and] his cognominall or name-sake in the heavens. |