rare. [f. the sb.] trans. To give a cognomen to, to nickname.
1831. J. Wilson, in Blackw. Mag., XXIX. 729. A crazy coxcomb, who … has been cognomen’d … the Glasgow Gander.
1841. Fraser’s Mag., XXIII. 78. Churchill, cognomened the ‘clerical bruiser,’ was a disgrace to the church.
