(a.) Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming.
(a.) Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class.
(n.) A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings, or for universal ideas. Thus, tree is the name of all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie.
(n.) An appellation or title; a descriptive name.
Example Sentences:
(1) I would do so in consideration of the appellants' rights, to avoid the possibility of a miscarriage of justice, and in comity with the supreme courts' request for time to resolve the issues pending before it."
(2) A GABAergic projection that originates in the pretectal nuclei is directed towards the superficial layers of the SC in the cat (Appell and Behan, 1990) and rat (Van der Want et al., 1991).
(3) In a case involving a 4-year-old esotrope with retinoblastoma, a federal appellate court has held that, as a matter of law, the standard of care expected of an optometrist requires a dilated fundus examination conducted with the binocular indirect ophthalmoscope at the initial visit and periodically thereafter.
(4) "The rabbis are wonderful spiritual leaders and they should be doing what they do best, spiritual guidance," says Mark Meyer Appel, whose group Voice of Justice gives emotional support to victims and their families.
(5) One of the court’s liberal justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, had previously indicated the court would consider a case on the issue if the appellate circuits were to disagree with each other on it.
(6) The prosecution also had to exclude the possibility that the appellant had determined to conduct meetings about parliamentary business with his staff member at a location other than Parliament House for reasons which he considered adequate.” Comment has been sought from Slipper, who served as the federal MP for the Queensland seat of Fisher from 1993 to 2013 and became embroiled in controversy in his final term in office.
(7) Several already published samples form a part of the present study, but their appellation do not correspond to the previous one; stricklingly, only few B3 (new appellation) have been described in the literature, which let one think that they might be undetected using classical grouping tests, and thus considered as normal B.
(8) The appellant’s actions towards these victims had long-term consequences for their lives.
(9) These findings, also present in human congenital myotonia [Butterfield, Chesnut, Roses & Appel, 1976, Nature (London) 263:159; Butterfield, 1977 (Submitted for publication)], strengthen the concepts that increased membrane fluidity is associated with the presence of myotonia and that congenital myotonia may be a diffuse membrane disease.
(10) As one contributor on the blog Quark Soup by David Appell put it : "Well, at least they considered it as an option."
(11) 6, 525-529), while in eukaryotes it is added post-transcriptionally by a special tRNA guanylyl transferase (Cooley, L., Appel, B., and Söll, D. (1982) Proc.
(12) Appellate courts in three states have now ruled that there is no legal difference between artificial feeding and any other medical treatment and that therefore feeding may be refused by a competent patient or, in appropriate circumstances, by the family or guardian of an incompetent patient.
(13) The source quoted the judge in the case, who said: "The evidence concerning the joint acquisition of Maya [the cat] by the appellant and his partner reinforces my conclusion on the strength and quality of the family life that appellant and his partner enjoy."
(14) This decision made the sixth circuit the first federal appellate court to rule against marriage equality since the landmark June 2013 decision that struck down parts of the Defense of Marriage Act (Doma).
(15) In its consultation document Ofcom said a successful appellant may get compensation and costs.
(16) A district (LG) and an appellate court (OLG) acknowledged the liability of the driver for injury to person and property damages.
(17) However, the ordering of retrials is relatively rare when an appellant has already served the sentence.
(18) In Howard v. Lecher a majority of the ''Appellate Division of the Supreme Court denied a cause of action against an obstetrician alleged to be negligent in not properly advising a couple about the dangers they were running, as potential carriers, in having a child afflicted with Tay-Sachs disease.''
(19) The public vote was eventually overruled in the case of Boaty McBoatface and the ship named the RRS Sir David Attenborough, with an onboard submersible receiving the Boatface appellation.
(20) Starting from the dramatic increase of suicide rates with age combined with a marked decrease in non-letal suicide attempts it is argued that normally suicide-inhibiting social norms become less effective as a person appraoches old age, thus weakening the appellative motivation components of suicidal behavior and strengthening evasive strivings.
Epithet
Definition:
(n.) An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn.
(n.) Term; expression; phrase.
(v. t.) To describe by an epithet.
Example Sentences:
(1) 3) The first who presumed an independent state of these microorganisms, was Kohlert (1968), from the work of which the epithet for correct name, i.e.
(2) Trolls called Kaepernick racial epithets , after all.
(3) When he first became president, Republicans slammed him for being a socialist – an epithet, from their lips, of the worst kind.
(4) This epithet was sufficiently offensive for Obama to cancel a planned meeting with Duterte.
(5) Male, pale and stale is the epithet often used to describe the makeup of a charity board.
(6) The tragic results for the babies of patients prescribed thalidomide, although they can indeed be termed "side" effects, hardly warrant so slight an epithet, and Dr Joyce in his paper would like the term to be dropped in favour of "additional" effects of drugs.
(7) Gibran's epithet is one of many quotations on the Guardian Witness website , where people are sharing good advice for the women in their life ahead of International Women's Day on Saturday.
(8) Believe the hype and he was a cross between a mafioso overlord and "HRH Victor Meldrew" (the epithet is David Starkey's).
(9) Because it's a racial slur and – no matter how many millions it spends trying to sanitize it and silence native peoples – the epithet is not, was not, and will not be an honorific.
(10) A descriptive identification epithet for P. multocida isolates was constructed.
(11) In order to provide a new reference point in the dermatological literature from which the naming of florists' chrysanthemums may be regularised and standardised, the case is presented for the use of the generic name Dendranthema together with a cultivar name in place of a specific epithet.
(12) But, in addition to being the “roof of the world”, here are a few other equally suitable epithets.
(13) Debate about the film has turned into a major talking point in a number publications large and small, with editorials in defence and critique of Django Unchained laying out their case for readers, while one of the film's stars, Samuel L Jackson, highlighted the discomfort over the frequent use of a racial epithet in the movie when he challenged a journalist to say the word out loud.
(14) We have seen it shift in particular since the Meet the Ukippers programme,” he added, referring to a recent BBC documentary about the local Ukip branch which led to one of its councillors being expelled after she was filmed saying that she had a “problem” with black people and using racial epithets.
(15) I was called a dirty Jew walking home from synagogue, my rabbi was kicked and punched in central London while anti-Jewish epithets were hurled at him, and my university sometimes suffered from an atmosphere of intimidation and harassment of Jewish students.
(16) The long-standing use of racial epithets by players and racial abuse from crowds have been exposed by a number of incidents in which the authorities actually prosecuted perpetrators: Juventude supporters were barred from their ground after racially abusing Internacional's Tinga in 2005.
(17) DC representative Eleanor Holmes Norton said: “As an African American woman and third-generation Washingtonian, I want to say to Redskins fans: no one blames you for using a name that has always been used but they will blame you if you continue to use it.” She compared the word to racial epithets used against African Americans before it was accepted that they were not the terms of endearment that some claimed.
(18) The epithets applicable to these groups appear to be lacunata, nonliquefaciens, and bovis.
(19) But before Argo, Affleck had pretty much had to retire from being a frontline movie star because he almost without exception ensured any movie's eternal epithet would be "the Ben Affleck shocker — ".
(20) He also went to jab at former rival Jeb Bush, using the epithet “low energy” while going on a tirade about primary opponents who signed the RNC pledge to support the eventual nominee but are now not backing Trump.