Onomasticon

My working money—a total of three thousand dollars—is hidden between the pages of a big leather-bound onomasticon. ❋ Holly Black (2010)

My only fear is that the book will be culled, since no one ever uses an onomasticon, but I think Wallingford keeps it because it looks expensive and obscure enough to reassure visiting parents that their kids are learning genius-type stuff. ❋ Holly Black (2010)

Meanwhile, if the thesaursus doll had legal definitions printed on it, I believe it would instead be an “onomasticon”. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Appended to the lives are annotations, explaining any difficulties therein; while no less than five or six indexes adorn each volume: the first an alphabetical list of Saints discussed; the second chronological; the third historical; the fourth topographical; the fifth an onomasticon, or glossary; the sixth moral or dialectic, suggesting topics for preachers. ❋ Various (N/A)

Mission archéol.institut. français, II, ii, 133; De Vit, Totius latinitatis onomasticon, IV (1887), cites all the passages from ancient authors, Greek and Latin, where mention is made of Memphis; ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

So the next time you need to use the word "thesaurus", prove you have amazing diction to your listeners and use onomasticon in its place. ❋ Kal99 (2010)

With the deportment of one who grapples with a suppositious onomasticon, this solicitation of manuscription shall be adventured with due diligence. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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