Word Meanings - NOMINALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a nominal manner; by name; in name only; not in reality. Burke.

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• NOMINALIST
  One of a sect of philosophers in the Middle Ages, who adopted the opinion of Roscelin, that general conceptions, or universals, exist in name only. Reid.
• NOMINAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a name or names; having to do with the literal meaning of a word; verbal; as, a nominal definition. Bp. Pearson. 2. Existing in name only; not real; as, a nominal difference. "Nominal attendance on lectures." Macaulay.
• NOMINALIZE
  To convert into a noun.
• NOMINALISM
  The principles or philosophy of the Nominalists.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• NOMINALISTIC
  Of or pertaining to the Nominalists.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• REALITY
  Loyalty; devotion. To express our reality to the emperor. Fuller. (more info) 1. The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact. A man fancies that he understands a critic, when
• NOMINALLY
  In a nominal manner; by name; in name only; not in reality. Burke.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• BURKE
  1. To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection. 2. To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary
• MULTINOMINAL; MULTINOMINOUS
  Having many names or terms.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• CORPOREALITY
  The state of being corporeal; corporeal existence.
• ETHEREALITY
  The state of being ethereal; etherealness. Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged to Wordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp.
• COGNOMINAL
  Of or pertaining to a cognomen; of the nature of a surname.
• QUADRINOMINAL
  Quadrinomial. Sir W. R. Hamilton.
• TRINOMINAL
  Trinomial.
• PRENOMINAL
  Serving as a prefix in a compound name. Sir T. Browne.
• PRONOMINALIZE
  To give the effect of a pronoun to; as, to pronominalize the substantives person, people, etc. Early.
• PRONOMINAL
  Belonging to, or partaking of the nature of, a pronoun.
• SURNOMINAL
  Of or pertaining to a surname or surnames.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.