Definition of onomastic in English:

onomastic

adjective ɒnəˈmastɪkˌɑnəˈmæstɪk

Relating to the study of the history and origin of proper names.
（研究专有名称的历史和起源的）专名学的
Example sentencesExamples
- On the whole, the evidence suggests that he was generally too preoccupied with his North American dreams and schemes to do solid onomastic work.
- Even outside the confines of finite name-spaces, the sheer onomastic challenge of modern life sometimes gets to be a burden.
- In this ambitious project, King presents a superstructure of seven guiding principles, three categories of onomastic desire (how and to whom a name desires to speak), and a large complement of ascriptive terms devised by King herself.
- These preliminary interpretations of Three Lives and its place in Stein's developing avant-garde poetics in the first decades of the twentieth century are necessary to contextualize the onomastic significance of Melanctha's name.
- But Scalito is a different kind of onomastic blend: an epithet combining elements of two names to suggest a resemblance of one named person to the other.
- Indeed, a king of ‘Brut[ish] connection is already discernible in Arthurian legend, onomastic though such an incidental linkage turns out to be.’
- The onomastic problem of personal and place-names (are Manchester, Manila, and Manitoba, etc., to be counted as words simply because they appear in texts?).
- The OED does not record ‘creature’ in the sense of ‘monster’ Hollywood's ‘creature from outer space’ but one might conjecture it to derive directly from Frankenstein's onomastic confusion.
- By contrast archaeological and onomastic evidence in Orkney, Shetland, the Hebrides, together with the Isle of Man, points to heavy Norwegian settlement from the early 9th cent.
- The onomastic instability of the novel Don Quixote undermines all certainty of a linear reading.
- One of the reasons for this lack of interest may be due to the often static and fixed conception of names: many onomastic studies do not allow for name changes.
- The crisis that arises from our attempt to define clear boundaries, or what James Baldwin criticized as ‘our passion for categorization, life neatly fitted into pegs’, has at its core an onomastic crisis.

Origin

Late 16th century (as a noun in the sense 'alphabetical list of proper nouns', later also 'lexicographer'): from Greek onomastikos, from onoma 'name'. The adjective dates from the early 18th century.

Definition of onomastic in US English:

onomastic

adjectiveˌänəˈmastikˌɑnəˈmæstɪk

Relating to the study of the history and origin of proper names.
（研究专有名称的历史和起源的）专名学的
Example sentencesExamples
- By contrast archaeological and onomastic evidence in Orkney, Shetland, the Hebrides, together with the Isle of Man, points to heavy Norwegian settlement from the early 9th cent.
- The OED does not record ‘creature’ in the sense of ‘monster’ Hollywood's ‘creature from outer space’ but one might conjecture it to derive directly from Frankenstein's onomastic confusion.
- In this ambitious project, King presents a superstructure of seven guiding principles, three categories of onomastic desire (how and to whom a name desires to speak), and a large complement of ascriptive terms devised by King herself.
- The onomastic instability of the novel Don Quixote undermines all certainty of a linear reading.
- Indeed, a king of ‘Brut[ish] connection is already discernible in Arthurian legend, onomastic though such an incidental linkage turns out to be.’
- But Scalito is a different kind of onomastic blend: an epithet combining elements of two names to suggest a resemblance of one named person to the other.
- These preliminary interpretations of Three Lives and its place in Stein's developing avant-garde poetics in the first decades of the twentieth century are necessary to contextualize the onomastic significance of Melanctha's name.
- One of the reasons for this lack of interest may be due to the often static and fixed conception of names: many onomastic studies do not allow for name changes.
- On the whole, the evidence suggests that he was generally too preoccupied with his North American dreams and schemes to do solid onomastic work.
- The crisis that arises from our attempt to define clear boundaries, or what James Baldwin criticized as ‘our passion for categorization, life neatly fitted into pegs’, has at its core an onomastic crisis.
- The onomastic problem of personal and place-names (are Manchester, Manila, and Manitoba, etc., to be counted as words simply because they appear in texts?).
- Even outside the confines of finite name-spaces, the sheer onomastic challenge of modern life sometimes gets to be a burden.

Origin

Late 16th century (as a noun in the sense ‘alphabetical list of proper nouns’, later also ‘lexicographer’): from Greek onomastikos, from onoma ‘name’. The adjective dates from the early 18th century.

单词	onomastic
释义	Definition of onomastic in English: onomastic adjective ɒnəˈmastɪkˌɑnəˈmæstɪk Relating to the study of the history and origin of proper names. （研究专有名称的历史和起源的）专名学的 Example sentencesExamples On the whole, the evidence suggests that he was generally too preoccupied with his North American dreams and schemes to do solid onomastic work. Even outside the confines of finite name-spaces, the sheer onomastic challenge of modern life sometimes gets to be a burden. In this ambitious project, King presents a superstructure of seven guiding principles, three categories of onomastic desire (how and to whom a name desires to speak), and a large complement of ascriptive terms devised by King herself. These preliminary interpretations of Three Lives and its place in Stein's developing avant-garde poetics in the first decades of the twentieth century are necessary to contextualize the onomastic significance of Melanctha's name. But Scalito is a different kind of onomastic blend: an epithet combining elements of two names to suggest a resemblance of one named person to the other. Indeed, a king of ‘Brut[ish] connection is already discernible in Arthurian legend, onomastic though such an incidental linkage turns out to be.’ The onomastic problem of personal and place-names (are Manchester, Manila, and Manitoba, etc., to be counted as words simply because they appear in texts?). The OED does not record ‘creature’ in the sense of ‘monster’ Hollywood's ‘creature from outer space’ but one might conjecture it to derive directly from Frankenstein's onomastic confusion. By contrast archaeological and onomastic evidence in Orkney, Shetland, the Hebrides, together with the Isle of Man, points to heavy Norwegian settlement from the early 9th cent. The onomastic instability of the novel Don Quixote undermines all certainty of a linear reading. One of the reasons for this lack of interest may be due to the often static and fixed conception of names: many onomastic studies do not allow for name changes. The crisis that arises from our attempt to define clear boundaries, or what James Baldwin criticized as ‘our passion for categorization, life neatly fitted into pegs’, has at its core an onomastic crisis. Origin Late 16th century (as a noun in the sense 'alphabetical list of proper nouns', later also 'lexicographer'): from Greek onomastikos, from onoma 'name'. The adjective dates from the early 18th century. Definition of onomastic in US English: onomastic adjectiveˌänəˈmastikˌɑnəˈmæstɪk Relating to the study of the history and origin of proper names. （研究专有名称的历史和起源的）专名学的 Example sentencesExamples By contrast archaeological and onomastic evidence in Orkney, Shetland, the Hebrides, together with the Isle of Man, points to heavy Norwegian settlement from the early 9th cent. The OED does not record ‘creature’ in the sense of ‘monster’ Hollywood's ‘creature from outer space’ but one might conjecture it to derive directly from Frankenstein's onomastic confusion. In this ambitious project, King presents a superstructure of seven guiding principles, three categories of onomastic desire (how and to whom a name desires to speak), and a large complement of ascriptive terms devised by King herself. The onomastic instability of the novel Don Quixote undermines all certainty of a linear reading. Indeed, a king of ‘Brut[ish] connection is already discernible in Arthurian legend, onomastic though such an incidental linkage turns out to be.’ But Scalito is a different kind of onomastic blend: an epithet combining elements of two names to suggest a resemblance of one named person to the other. These preliminary interpretations of Three Lives and its place in Stein's developing avant-garde poetics in the first decades of the twentieth century are necessary to contextualize the onomastic significance of Melanctha's name. One of the reasons for this lack of interest may be due to the often static and fixed conception of names: many onomastic studies do not allow for name changes. On the whole, the evidence suggests that he was generally too preoccupied with his North American dreams and schemes to do solid onomastic work. The crisis that arises from our attempt to define clear boundaries, or what James Baldwin criticized as ‘our passion for categorization, life neatly fitted into pegs’, has at its core an onomastic crisis. The onomastic problem of personal and place-names (are Manchester, Manila, and Manitoba, etc., to be counted as words simply because they appear in texts?). Even outside the confines of finite name-spaces, the sheer onomastic challenge of modern life sometimes gets to be a burden. Origin Late 16th century (as a noun in the sense ‘alphabetical list of proper nouns’, later also ‘lexicographer’): from Greek onomastikos, from onoma ‘name’. The adjective dates from the early 18th century.
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