All 5 Uses of
appellation
in
Gulliver's Travels
- I said, "I had not;" and desired he would explain to me "what he meant by such an appellation, applied to a mortal creature."†
Chpt 3 *
- In talking, they forget the common appellation of things, and the names of persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations.†
Chpt 3
- I expressed my uneasiness at his giving me so often the appellation of Yahoo, an odious animal, for which I had so utter a hatred and contempt: I begged he would forbear applying that word to me, and make the same order in his family and among his friends whom he suffered to see me.†
Chpt 4
- But having here accidentally mentioned a minister of state, he commanded me, some time after, to inform him, "what species of Yahoo I particularly meant by that appellation."†
Chpt 4
- Neither has their language any more than a general appellation for those maladies, which is borrowed from the name of the beast, and called hnea-yahoo, or Yahoo's evil; and the cure prescribed is a mixture of their own dung and urine, forcibly put down the Yahoo's throat.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(appellation) word or words by which someone or something is known or classified -- such as a person or wine-growing region