homonymicadj.
Of or relating to homonyms or homonymy.
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homonymic1862
homonymous1876
1862 F. Hall in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1861 30 10 The Viśwaprakáśa, an homonymic lexicon..written in the year 1111.
1867 W. D. Whitney Lang. & Study of Lang. (1870) xii. 454 The homonymic designation of a thing by something which called to the mind the sounds of which its name was composed.
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homoˈnymical adj. (In modern dictionaries.)
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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adj.1862- to clear the hawse
- to clear up
- to clear, pay, quit a score or scores
- to cleave a hair
- to cleave down
- to cleave one's way through
- to cleave the pin
- to cleek hold
- to cleek hold of
- to clerk it
- to clew down
- to clew up
- to click and collect
- to click into place
- to click n collect
- to click on all cylinders
- to click on etc cylinders
- to click on four cylinders
- to click on six cylinders
- to click one's fingers
- to click one's heels
- to click one's heels together
- to click one's tongue
- to click through
- to climb down