(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.
Warner
Definition:
(n.) One who warns; an admonisher.
(n.) A warrener.
Example Sentences:
(1) The eight senators, including the incoming ranking member Mark Warner of Virginia, wrote to Barack Obama to request he declassify relevant intelligence on the election.
(2) In this review, Warner Greene and colleagues discuss recent studies that have revealed an intriguing molecular interplay between two pathogenic human retroviruses, HIV-1 and HTLV-1, and certain cellular genes that normally control T-cell growth.
(3) Both Bin Hammam and Warner issued statements calling into question the process that led to their suspensions.
(4) President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government has joined MPs, bloggers and local media in denouncing the newly-released Warner Brothers epic, 300, as a calculated attempt to demonise Iran at a time of intensifying US pressure over the country's nuclear programme.
(5) Warner, a government minister in his country, suggested on Trinidadian television that the allegations were a conspiracy.
(6) Will Francis, director, Vandal London Facebook Twitter Pinterest Will has worked with a variety of global brands including Net-a-Porter, Samsung, Spotify, Microsoft, Warner Music and Nike Foundation to innovate in social media, something he’s been doing since his days as editor of MySpace in the mid-late noughties.
(7) The US justice department has alleged $10m was sent by South Africa, through Fifa, to Warner in three wire transfers in 2008 as payback for him and two other then Fifa executive committee members backing South Africa in the 2004 vote.
(8) Photograph: Warner Bros “I think maybe the ambition comes also from a place of being sort of partially unsatisfied with what you’ve done and thinking you can be better, and trying to get better,” she continues.
(9) It was Tim, an archivist from Warners whom I had been pestering for years about trying to track down some long-lost film footage.
(10) Triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4) were measured by radioimmunoassay in Pronase hydrolysates of four lots each of 1- and 2-grain tablets of desiccated thyroid (Thyroid, Armour) and thyroglobulin (Proloid, Warner-Chilcott).
(11) Time Inc, the largest magazine publisher in the US with titles including Time, Sports Illustrated and Marie Claire, was spun off last month as a corporate manoeuvre to protect Time Warner from the continuing decline in the publishing sector.
(12) A total of 14 men – nine soccer officials and five marketing executives – were indicted by the US justice department in May, including former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner, who is resisting extradition from Trinidad and Tobago.
(13) They are making a big play for more content and Time Warner has some of the best global franchises you could hope to have – look at Harry Potter, Batman and HBO.” Time Warner’s lucrative cable channel business includes TNT, TBS and HBO, home to shows including Game of Thrones.
(14) In a letter addressed to Richard Burr and Mark Warner, chairman and vice-chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, Page notes media reports that secret court orders were issued last October to allow the FBI to conduct surveillance of “US persons” in an investigation of possible contacts between Russian banks and the Trump Organization.
(15) But the deal will not be easy to pull off, even though Fox indicated that it would sell off Time Warner’s CNN, which competes directly with Fox News .
(16) Universal will have accounted for 13, including the judges, while Warner Music and EMI (which is in the process of being sold to Universal) will have had three each.
(17) Gerald Levin, the AOL Time Warner chief executive, has set a target of increasing the percentage of revenues generated outside the US from 20% to 50% within the decade.
(18) Lawyers for Lockett and Warner have challenged the independence of a state investigation by the department of public safety into what happened to Lockett.
(19) Sony Music, Warner Music, Universal Music and EMI had not returned a request for comment at the time of publication.
(20) Warner, a former government minister, lost his seat in Trinidad and Tobago parliamentary in elections earlier this month .