a. and sb. [in sense 1, f. L. cognōmin-is having the same name; in 2, f. cognōmin-, stem of COGNOMEN: see -AL.]

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  A.  adj.

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  1.  Having the same name or cognomen, like-named.

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1656.  Blount, Glossogr., Cognominal, that hath one and the same name or sir-name.

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1766.  Entick, London, IV. 128–9. Distinguished from other cognominal dedications, by the name of St. James’s chapel, or Hermitage on the wall.

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1831.  T. L. Peacock, Crotchet Castle, ix. The immortal nose … which is still resplendent over the portals of its cognominal college [Brasenose].

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  2.  Of or pertaining to a cognomen or surname.

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1659.  Pearson, Creed (1741), 194. The second [name] Pilatus as a cognominal addition distinguishing from the rest descending from the same family.

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1855.  W. H. Mill, Applic. Panth. Princ. (1861), 171. A cognominal epithet … of the elder son.

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1866.  J. B. Rose, trans. Ovid’s Fasti, I. 647. No Roman house had grade cognominal Above the Fabii; titled above all As ‘Maxima.’

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  † B.  sb. One who or that which has the same name as another; a namesake. Obs. rare.

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1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., III. xxiv. 170. The Dog [and] his cognominall or name-sake in the heavens.

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