Many synonyms of the terms in question are found among the Phenicians as religious terms, and among the Hebrews (when the words are equally native there) in a completely appellative sense, e.
Here, as everywhere, investigation must of course be guided by the nature of the personages in question, by the matter of the story, and by the appellative signification of the names.
From this point it is only a step to the original formation of the myth, at which the appellations proper to the mythic figures are not proper names but appellative nouns.
Goeje of Leyden, to take the name Hebhel in the appellative sense ‘herdsman,’ and compare it with the Arabic abil, the initial breathing being aspirated.
Religion itself had not yet grown so stiff and fixed as to have taken from such names their appellative character: and that of Elôhîm and ʿElyôn continued to the latest times.
In the course of the following expositions we shall have occasion to convince ourselves that mythological appellatives forfeited their appellativecharacter just like those of the Aryan myths.
But we hold that there is every reason to regard the stage at which those expressions lived in the human mind with their original appellative sense, as one of the proper mythic stages.
In many appellations the appellative sense can be found without much difficulty, being explicable from the language itself, in our case from the known treasures of the Hebrew tongue.
To the root vip place as an appellative the Welsh gwibio, to rove, wander, gwibiau, serpentine course.
From the verb comes the appellative ffrwd, a torrent, corresponding with the Bohem.
The only appellative I find, (if it can be called one), is the Ang.
The former, it will be seen, is an appellativefor a river; the latter is found in the name Carpino, of an affluent of the Tiber, and might be from the Celt.
I take it, the root of the Finnic wirta, a river, the onlyappellative I can find for the following.
Those which, passing out of the appellative into the descriptive, characterize a river as that which runs violently, that which flows gently, or that which spreads widely.
The onlyappellative for a river which I find derived from its sound is the Sanscrit nadi, Hind.
It was agreed to disuse the dishonoured name of De Vallance, and adopt the endeared appellative of Evellin, to which was annexed the title of Baronet.
But if the name of the defunct be derived from an appellative noun, the word is abolished by proclamation, and a new one substituted.
Hence appellative words bearing any affinity with the names of the deceased are presently abolished.
This name "God" is an appellative name, and not a proper name, for it signifies the divine nature in the possessor; although God Himself in reality is neither universal nor particular.
They had a suspicious appellative for their island, true; but not thus seemed it to them.
Her appellative had been bestowed in honor of a high chief, the tallest and goodliest looking gentleman in all the Sandwich Islands.
Beelzebub, or the Lord of Flies, was an Eastern appellative given to the Devil; and the nocturnal sound called by the Arabians azif was believed to be the howling of demons.
Hence it became the appellative of that species of monster which was supposed to haunt forests, cemeteries, and other lonely places; and believed not only to tear in pieces the living, but to dig up and devour the dead.
Now the mingling and the amalgamation of the verb and the connective have produced a rhythm which is not without its charm; but the combination of the connective with the appellative has resulted in a junction of considerable roughness.
A popular epithet or appellative could appear by the side of the proper deity as a new creation, or the deity was sub-divided on cosmical and astral theories.
In demonstration of this, we may first refer to some passages in which the appellative Melach, the primary signification of which is Messenger, occurs, as a designation of him who was sent of the Father; as Malachi iii.
Certain adjectives, which originally agreed with an appellative denoting a thing, have dropped the appellative and become substantives.
The professors of singing triumph, for they find in this appellative form, always and necessarily sharp and boisterous at the same time, a striking confirmation of their system.
But though sindhu was used as anappellative noun for river in general (cf.
They are all but names, quite as much as Jupiter and Apollo and Minerva; in fact, quite as much as all the gods of every religion who are called by such appellative titles.
The MacAllans of Scotland may have a separate Celtic source, though it is far likelier that this name (like MacEdward, MacGeorge, and numerous others) is the English appellative with the patronymic Mac prefixed.
I wish to note, and to suggest to students in ethnology, the Query, how it comes to pass that John Bull has a peculiar propensity to call things by his own name, his familiar appellative of Jack?
That the latter was used as an appellative as early as the time of Procopius seems to result from his mentioning the tribes ("ethne") of the Danes in just the same way as he speaks of those of the Slavs.
Thus Rhenus, the Rhine, means river or runner, but it clung to one river, and could not be used as an appellative for others.
And it is certain that all proper or individual names have been originally appellative or general.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "appellative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
