nomInation, nomina cion, nomynacion

[French nomination, from Lat. nomina tionem, acc us. of nominatio = a naming, from no min at us [NOMINATE, v.]; Sp. nomina cion; Ital. no min azione.] *1. The act of naming or mentioning by name; den: Remains; Surnames. 2. A verb formed from a noun. nominal-partner, s. Law : A person who, by permitting his name to be used, allows himself to appear to the world as a partner, and having an interest in a trade, busine , or firm, although really having no actual interest in it, and who thus becomes responsible for the actions of the real partners. ismus.] Năm-in-al-Işm, subst . [Eccles. Latin nominal Hist. & Philos.: The name given to one of two rival schools of philosophy which flourished in the Middle Ages, though the origin of the dispute dates from the days of Plato. It turned on the real nature of genera and species, and the motto of nominalism was" Universal i a postrem." Roscellinus, canon of Compiègne, in the latter part of the eleventh century, was the first advocate of Nominalism, and maintained, in opposition to the advocates of Real. ism, that general ideas have no separate entity. He was charged with holding heretical opinions concerning the Trinity, for which he was cited before the Council of So is sons, and condemned A. D. 1092. His first great opponent was Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, and later Abelard, who had been a pupil of Roscellinus, modified his master's system into what is known as Conceptualism (q. v.). [REALISM.] "If nominalism led to heretical views of the Trinity, Realism nece arily led to Pantheism."-G. H. Lewes: Hist. Philos . (ed. 1880), ii. 30. Năm-in-al-ist, a . & s. [English nominal ( ism ) • -ist .] A. As adj .: The same as NOMINALISTIC (q. v.). "The three chief positions in the nominalist solution." -Encyc. Brit . (ed. 9th), xvii. 718. B. As subst.: One who holds that general ideas have no separate entity. "A closer examination of the arguments, however, shows that Abelard was a Nominalist under a new name." -G. H. Lewes: Hist. Philos. (ed. 1880), ii. 28. nom-in-al-ist'-ic, adj . [Eng. nominalist ; ic.] Of or pertaining to Nominalism or the Nominalists. *nom-in-al-ize, v . t . [ Eng.nominal ; -ize.] To convert into a noun. năm-in-al-ly, adv. [Eng. nominal; -ly.] By name; in name only; not in reality. "Base metal, nominally worth near a million ster ling."- Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xii.