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cognominally en · ADV

Etymology

From cognominal + -ly.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) By way of cognomen, in regard to the cognomen.
   • Be it notified unto you, that I am lineally descended from my hero: the masculine parent of King Arthur was cognominally furnished like myself—he also was a Pendragon. 1837, Charles Whitehead, “A Word or Two about Geoffrey Gooch”, in The Library of Fiction, or Family Story-Teller; Consisting of Original Tales, Essays, and Sketches of Character, volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], chapter II, page 262:
   • Unlike other names in the Conte del Graal, Perceval’s name is unique in that it consists of a baptismal name followed by an adjective used cognominally (15).[…]In the versions where she is connected cognominally with Arthur’s kingdom, her identity functions ironically with respect to Gauvain, the model citizen of Logres. 1977, Rupert T[arpley] Pickens, The Welsh Knight: Paradoxicality in Chrétien’s Conte del Graal, Lexington, Ky.: French Forum, →ISBN, pages 113 and 151:
   • Due to this bunkerlike quality, the Womb is cognominally referred to as the Pillbox, frequently annexed by recreational drug users; 2012, K̇ol, Fools, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 185:
   • She accompliſhed in 1706 a union of England and Scotland into one kingdom, ſtyled, cognominally with the the^([sic]) iland of which they are parts, the kingdom of Great-Britain; 1805, James [Bentley] Gordon, A History of Ireland, from the Earliest Accounts to the Accomplishment of the Union with Great Britain in 1801, volume II, Dublin: […] John Jones, […], page 203:
   • The L S T known to Washington Pearl Harbor and its own anonymous flagship only as 1066—dubbed the Reluctant Green Dragon (no doubt cognominally redundant with more than a few of her fungible sisters) by the men who as chosen taxpayers considered themselves her proprietors,[…]. 1999, Jonathan Bayliss, Prologos, Drawbridge Press, published 2015, →ISBN:
   • He made many inquiries about the business of the town, and especially of the inhabitants cognominally. 1910, O. Henry [pen name; William Sydney Porter], Whirligigs, page 129:
   • Now, in Tossim’s habitation there abode a female chattel servant cognominally known as Morgenthaunia. 2005, Charles Manley Brown, Thou Shalt Not Take Thyself Too… Seriously: The Lighter Side of the Golden Years, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 199:
   • “Rich in worldly things,” I resumed, with a sigh, “but cognominally I am impoverished, degraded, sunk deeper than plummet ever sounded. Were it a fair name, I could submit; but this is a nickname, a byword, a reproach.[…]” 1825, “Mr. Mark Higginbotham’s Case of real Distress”, in The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 291:
   • Oh, Wilhelmina—Wilhelmina— / Sweet swearer “by the living jingo!”— / Thy Goldsmith ne’er had soiled so fine a / Mouth as thine own with vulgar lingo, / But for thine other name;—he knew / That “gods” must knuckle down to “fegs,” / When oaths out-flew from maids like you, / Cognominally known as—Skeggs. 1827, [Edward Gandy], “What’s in a name?”, in Moods and Tenses. By One of Us., London: […] Richard Glynn, […], page 5:
   • The double ovals appear in other monuments, and thus cognominally identify the kings. 1836, “I Monumenti dell’ Egitto e della Nubia, disegnati della Spedizione scientifico—letteraria Toscana in Egitto. Distribuiti in ordine di Materie, interpretati ed illustrati dal Dottore Ippollito Rosellini, direttore della spedizione. Tom. I. II. Pisa, 1835, 8vo. With an Atlas and Plates, large folio, in livraisons.”, in The British and Foreign Review; or, European Quarterly Journal, volumes II (January—April), London: James Ridgway and Sons, page 165: