She counseled him to take a bold step and renounce his patronymic for the noble name of Rubempre; he need not mind the little tittle-tattle over a change which the King, for that matter, would authorize.
If he wishes to drop his patronymic and to bear his mother's name, he should at any rate be on the right side, should he not?
He says: "In some instances the foreign family adopted a purely Celtic patronymic from the name of the sept of which they were the leaders.
Montrose, addressing the Chief by his patronymic title--"are they good or bad?
The patronymic was, of all of these, the most in favour.
Another horde first plundered and then took up its abode near Boulogne, where local names of the English patronymic type also abound to the present day.
Each of these families was known by the name of its real or supposed ancestor, the patronymic being formed by the addition of the syllable ing.
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.
ALCI`DES, the grandson of Alcæus, a patronymic of Hercules.
He added his Christian name, because a reminiscence of the mystery belonging to his patronymic by itself flashed upon him.
For, had Danae herself been descended from Danaus, it seems improbable that she would have drawn her patronymic from the less distinguished Acrisius, unless Danaus was a very remote ancestor.
The patronymic does not of itself enable us to determine whether these were sons of Æolus, or were more remotely descended from him.
And what the patronymic was to the individual, this form of speech was to the nation, an incentive under the form of an embellishment.
But to what class are we to refer the settlements represented by the local names with the supposed patronymic suffix?
As regards the supposed patronymic names in the district between Calais and St. Omer, Mr. Taylor states that 80 per cent.
We now pass to the more direct consideration of the local names with the supposed patronymic suffix.
The geographical distribution of local names with the patronymic termination is shown on the same map as that on which were marked the position of the 'hams' and 'heims.
They were planted in the district of the Tricassi round Troyes and Langres, and here again there are numerous patronymic names.
But to infer from the existence of patronymic local names that German emigration at all generally took the form of free village communities would surely not be consistent with the evidence.
As to our Anglo-Saxon ancestors, there is little evidence beyond the fact that the patronymic names of many of the early settlements of Billings, Arlings, and the rest, are undeniably derived from animals and plants.
The epic still preserves the name, in the patronymic form of Yadava, as that of the race in which Krishna was born.
Macodrum, whose real patronymic is understood to have been Macdonald, lived to lament his patron in elegiac strains--a fact that brings the time in which he flourished down to 1766.
We can understand that at first it would seem strange for a girl to go by a patronymic of this kind.
THE largest class of surnames in the London Directory, we showed in our second chapter, after local names, were those of patronymic origin: baptismal surnames we called them.
What I hae tell't ye is no a tithe o' the sufferings I hae endured through this unhappy patronymic o' mine.
What, in heaven's name, am I to do wi' this unfortunate patronymic o' mine?
Mr. Kemble was the first to call attention to the fact that very many of the names of places in England, as disclosed by the forms in which these names appear in ancient charters, consist of a personal name in a patronymic form.
But thepatronymic Stubbing points to an origin of a different kind, and moreover we find Stubingas among the early settlers.
Names of a similar kind may be Twine, with its patronymic Twining, and also Twiss, corresponding with an O.
Winfarthing again would seem to be derived from the most petty gambling, unless he can be rehabilitated as an Anglo-Saxon Winfrithing (patronymic of Winfrith.
To this may be placed our names Knapp, Napp, and the patronymic Knapping.
It must have been superseded during, or very soon after, Anglo-Saxon times, by the patronymic in son, inasmuch as no names of Scriptural origin appear to be formed with it.
The stem is represented in our names by Ewe, Yeo, and Yea, and we have also the patronymic Ewing (Euing in Domesday).
This hypothesis is also supported by the ancient patronymic surname of the Macedonian kings, "Argeadae;" if it is rightly derived by Appian from Argos in Orestis.
Dorians in a patronymic form, is the descendant of Sisyphus.
Priamidai, thepatronymic of the descendants of Priam.
Chruseids, the patronymic of the descendants of Astynome, the daughter of Chryses.
Just in time Lucy remembered that there were Vera's books.
Not for a moment, hardly, had she been left alone to suffer.
This is a feature in which Homeric usage differs not only from Teutonic but also, still more, from that of later times in Greece, where we frequently find families or kindreds bearing patronymic names derived from a remote ancestor.
We shall commission our New York correspondents to inquire as to the reality of Mr Melville's avuncular relative, and, until certified of his corporality, shall set down the gentleman with the Dutch patronymic as a member of an imaginary clan.
Her real name is Aimata, but she assumed, on ascending the throne, the royal patronymic by which she is best known.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patronymic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
