(a.) Derived from ancestors; as, a patronymic denomination.
(n.) A modification of the father's name borne by the son; a name derived from that of a parent or ancestor; as, Pelides, the son of Peleus; Johnson, the son of John; Macdonald, the son of Donald; Paulowitz, the son of Paul; also, the surname of a family; the family name.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tom Jaine writes: Robert Carrier was born Robert Carrier MacMahon, but dropped the patronymic when in France after the war: "It sounds good in French and it looks well visually," he remarked.
(2) Several explanations are offered for this, including polyphyletism of surnames and the presence of Scandinavian patronyms in this population.
(3) The Handmaid's Tale tells the story of Offred – not her real name, but the patronymic she has been given by the new regime in an oppressive parallel America of the future – and her role as a Handmaid.
Saunders
Definition:
(n.) See Sandress.
Example Sentences:
(1) Certainly, Saunders did not land a single blow that threatened to stop his opponent, although he took quite a few himself that threatened his titles in the final few rounds.
(2) That motivation is echoed by Nicola Saunders, 25, an Edinburgh University graduate who has just been called to the bar to practise as a barrister and is tutoring Moses, an ex-convict, in maths.
(3) With the awareness of quality of life as a primary goal in terminal cancer patients, widespread attention has been drawn to the direct delivery of long-term intraspinal analgesics to cancer patients for who all medical pain control regimens have failed (Coombs & Saunders, 1974).
(4) It is little more than a year since Ms Saunders became the first DPP who had made a career largely as a manager in the Crown Prosecution Service, where she took a particular interest in the vulnerable.
(5) Neil Saunders, analyst for Conlumino, said Tesco had made a mistake by choosing to fight the Christmas sales battle on low prices alone: "This festive season was not about austerity; consumers were willing to trade up and sought quality and value rather than just low prices.
(6) But we’re only at the beginning of the journey as to where more subtle, cultural discrimination kicks in,” admits Saunders.
(7) Before sentencing him, Mr Justice Saunders said: "It is vital that people feel able to trust our legislators and their use of public funds."
(8) "It is clear from the footage that there was sufficient time for the words to have been said either as described by the gate officer or as described by Mitchell," said Saunders.
(9) Saunders said everyone from tech companies like Twitter and Facebook, to police and the CPS and wider society, needed to do more to tackle the growing scale of threatening and abusive communications online.
(10) Cotto is probably at the head of the queue but there are other intriguing options, including the monster of the division, the unbeaten Gennady Golovkin, and Chris Eubank Jr, who looked good stopping the former Saunders victim, Gary “Spike” O’Sullivan in London on 12 December – or even a rematch with Lee.
(11) I, like Professor Steve Field, chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners, Dr John Saunders, chair of the Royal College of Physicians' ethics committee and Dr Tony Calland, chairman of the ethics committee at the British Medical Association, who have commented on these figures, am extremely concerned that people with non-terminal conditions are choosing to travel abroad to die.
(12) Alison Saunders, chief crown prosecutor for London , was woken by an urgent plea for an extra prosecutor.
(13) Peter Saunders, founder of the National Association for People Abused as Children , said: "The silver lining in all of this is that abusers might think twice about abusing children because the cat is out of the bag, and we have got to be optimistic that this does mark a significant change in attitudes."
(14) It is all but unheard of for a chief crown prosecutor to appear in court – particularly one as eminent as Saunders, who oversees nearly 200,000 cases a year and a budget of almost £100m.
(15) Saunders also attacked a branch of Tesco with a shovel and handed out looted property to other rioters.
(16) In a statement, Care UK “offers its condolences” and adds that prison was not the right place for Dean Saunders.
(17) Her council has increased hiring fees for its football pitches by 91% since then, which Kenny Saunders, of the Save Grass Roots Football campaign , says is being replicated across the country and driving senior and junior clubs away.
(18) Stay (sung primarily by Detroit) became a mutant No 1 hit, a pop culture flashpoint parodied by both French & Saunders and Newman & Baddiel, who likened Fahey's voice to a foghorn.
(19) "Contagion from Greece is what I would call thematic," says Michael Saunders, an economist at Citigroup.
(20) Saunders said: "Mr Mulcaire, you are truly the lucky one", telling him it would be "wrong" to send him back to prison as he had already served time in 2007 for phone hacking.