nomenclatory (nomenklatori)

[ Every conceptual act is so immediately followed as to seem accompanied by a nomenclatory one. Whitney, Life and Growth of Language, p. 139. nomenclatre (no'men-klā-tres), n. [ I have a wife who is a Nomenclatre , and will be ready, on any occasion, to attend the ladies. Guardian , No. 107. nomenclatural (nō'men-klā-tu-ral), a. nomenclature + -al.] Pertaining or according to a nomenclature. [ IMG:content-1430.png:[blocks in formation] To say where notions cannot fitly be reconciled, that there wanteth a term or nomenclature for it, is but a shift of ignorance. Bacon , Nat. Hist. 2. A system of names; the systematic naming of things; specifically, the names of things in any art or science, or the whole vocabulary of names or technical terms which are appropriated to any particular branch of science: as, the nomenclature of botany or of chemistry. Compare terminology. If I could envy any man for succe ful ill-nature, I should envy Lord Byron for his skill in satirical no men Sydney Smith, To Lady Holland, clature . The purposes of natural science require that its nomenclature shall be capable of exact definition, and that every descriptive technical term be rigorously limited to the expre ion of the precise quality or mode of action to the designation of which it is applied. Marsh, Lects. on Eng. Lang., viii. 3t. A glo ary, vocabulary, or dictionary. There was at the end of the grammar a little nomenclature, called "The Christian Man's Vocabulary," which gave new appellations or (if you will) Christian names to almost everything in life. Add is on, Religions in Waxwork. Binary, binomial, polynomial nomenclature. See vocabulary. adjectives. Syn. 3. Dictionary, Glo ary, etc. See generally Nomia (no'mi-a), n. [NL. (Latreille, 1804), nominalism shepherd, IMG:content-1431.png:[blocks in formation] taining to the law, conventional, II. n. [cap.] The customary or conventional English spelling. See Glo ic . A. J. Ellis .