a1635 T. Randolph Muses Looking-glasse iii. iv. 56 in Poems (1638) Then the Lepanto that I meant, it seemes Was but that Lepanto's name-sake.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 170 Nor [does] the Dog-fish at sea much more make out the Dog of the land, then that his cognominall or name-sake in the heavens. View more context for this quotation

1657 J. Watts Scribe, Pharisee 89 I shall here dehort you from being of Iohn and Iames, (though you are the name-sake of the one).

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 482. ⁋2 Another..subscribes herself Xantippe, and tells me, that she follows the Example of her Name-sake.

1797 F. Burney Let. 2 June in Jrnls. & Lett. (1973) III. 315 It was a very sweet thought to make my little namesake write to me.

1826 W. Scott in Croker Papers 26 Mar. (1884) I. 319 I enclose a letter for your funny namesake and kinsman.

1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. iv. 206 The unhappy descendant and namesake of the great Emperor.

1902 ‘O. Henry’ in Ainslee's Mag. Feb. 126/1 Chicken's heart was as soft as those of his feathered namesakes.

1987 A. Nickon & E. F. Silversmith Org. Chem.: Name Game xix. 267 Ockham's Razor (like its steel namesake) must be wielded cautiously.

2000 Guardian (Dar-es-Salaam) 27 Mar. 18/1 The Speakers' Corner, inspired by its namesake in London's Hyde Park..is intended to bring citizens out of..private venues.

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. i. 64 Looking southward behold the City of Nebo, at the foot of its namesake mountain.

1762 D. Mallet Poems on Several Occasions 39 Oft ascrib'd to Fox, at least All that defames his name-sake-beast.

1783 J. Hall-Stevenson Moral Tales v. 18 As harmless as his namesake bird, Robin was forc'd to make a third, And pig with Bodkin and his Dame.

1805 B. Finch Sonnets 49 An invitation to the cuckoo... Thy name-sake plant up-rears Its spotted leaves, and purple spears.

1860 J. Forster Deb. Grand Remonstr. 26 Postponing Luke to lucre; and setting more store by a handful of marks than by all the doctrines of their namesake saint.

1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea xxi. 251 ‘Is he Stephen Irving's son?’ Miss Lavendar asked, bending over her namesake border.

1994 Minnesota Monthly Sept. 95/1 The Beacon..was nicknamed ‘the State Fair apple’ and was for years sold at its namesake event.

1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1838) p. ix Here's a Book they've namesaked arter me.

1993 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch 13 May (Everyday Mag. section) 1F Tables..will be namesaked for famous people with disabilities.

1997 Pantagraph (Bloomington, Illinois) 13 July (Focus section) c3 The baby..is namesaked after her maternal great-grandmother.