nomancyt (nomansi)

[F. nomancie (= Sp. nomancia ), abbr. from onomancie (see ono mancy ), appar. by confusion with F. nom, name.] The art or practice of divining the destiny of persons by the letters which form their names. Johnson. no-man's-land (nō'manz-land), n. 1. A tract or district to which no one can lay a recognized or established claim; a region which is the subject of dispute between two parties; debatable land. See debatable. Some observers have established an intermediate kingdom, a sort of no-man's- land , for the reception of those debatable organisms which cannot be definitely and positively cla ed either amongst vegetables or amongst animals. H. A. Nicholson. 4009 Caius Julius Cæsar, of the gens of the Julii; Marcus Tullius Cicero, of the gens of the Tullii. See name. In natural history nomen has specific uses: (a) The technical name of any organism-that is, the name which is tenable according to recognized laws of zoological and botanical nomenclature; an onym. (See опут.) (6) Any word which enters into the usual binomial designation of a species of animals or plants; a generic or specific name. In the Linnean nomenclature, the basis of the present systematic nomenclature in zoology and botany, nomina were distinguished as the nomen genericum and the nomen triviale. - Nomen genericum, the generic name. See genus. - Nomen nudum, a bare or mere name, unaccompanied by any description, and therefore not entitled to spec in cum, nomen triviale, the specific of trivial pea me which, coupled with and following the nomen genericum, completes the technical designation of an animal or a plant. See species.