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[Fr. dénomination; Sp. denominacion; Port. denomina ção; Ital. denominazione; Prov. denominetio; all from Lat. denominatio, from denominatus, pa. par. of denomino.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. The act of naming or designating. 2. A name or appellation given to a thing; an epithet, a designation. "The liking or disliking of the people gives the play the denomination of good or bad; but does not really make or constitute it such."-Dryden. 3. A cla , society, collection, or sect. "Philosophy, the great idol of the learned part of the heathen world, has divided it into many sects and denom i nations."- South . IMG:content-2137.png:[blocks in formation] dent. "Thus th' Almighty Sire began: Ye gods, Natives, or denizens of blest abodes." IMG:content-2138.png:[blocks in formation] "Bot scho was sum thing denk , and dangerous." Dunbar: Maitland Poems , p. 67 *děn'-nar, *den-nare, s. [DINNER.] děn-nět, s . [From the name of the inventor.] Vehicles : A light, open, two-wheeled carriage like a gig, hung by a combination of three springs; two of which are placed acro the axle, at right angles with it, the third being suspended from them behind by shackles. "In those days men drove gigs, as they since have driven stanhopes, tilburys, dennets , and cabriolets."- T . and £4 4s. 3d., £1 and £4 are of the same denomination, 2s, are of the same denomination as 4s., and 6d. of the same as 3d, †(2) Spec . ( of fractions ): Having the same denominator. 2. Eccles .: A religious communion, a section of the Christian Church; a body of profe ing Christians holding e entially the same tenets, and more or le closely bound together, either under a common government or under governments of the same type. It is more frequently used generically of a number of sects holding identical views as to Church government than of a single one of those sects: thus the Baptist denomination is a term more frequently used than the Particular Baptist denomination, and the Presbyterian denomination than the Reformed Presbyterian denomination. The Three Denominations : Eccles.: The name given to a union formed in England in A. D. 1727 of representatives belonging to the Presbyterians, the Independents or Congregationalists, and the Baptists, with the view of making a direct approach to the reigning sovereign. It still exists, and at intervals meets and acts, For the difference between denomination and name, see NAME.