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Heart :: Heart (n.) The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; -- usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and character; the moral affections and character itself; the individual disposition and character; as, a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish h

Agnomen :: Agnomen (n.) An additional name, or an epithet appended to a name; as, Aristides the Just..

Apply :: Apply (v. t.) To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the testimony to the case; to apply an epithet to a person..

Flamen :: Flamen (n.) A priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis..

Sobriquet :: Sobriquet (n.) An assumed name; a fanciful epithet or appellation; a nickname.

Honorable :: Honorable (a.) An epithet of respect or distinction; as, the honorable Senate; the honorable gentleman..

Bloody :: Bloody (a.) Infamous; contemptible; -- variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet.

Carroty :: Carroty (a.) Like a carrot in color or in taste; -- an epithet given to reddish yellow hair, etc..

Triune :: Triune (a.) Being three in one; -- an epithet used to express the unity of a trinity of persons in the Godhead.

Amplification :: Amplification (n.) The enlarging of a simple statement by particularity of description, the use of epithets, etc., for rhetorical effect; diffuse narrative or description, or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject..

Denominate :: Denominate (v. t.) To give a name to; to characterize by an epithet; to entitle; to name; to designate.

Denomination :: Denomination (n.) That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals; a category; as, the denomination of units, or of thousands, or of fourths, or of shillings, or of tons..

Antonomasia :: Antonomasia (n.) The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero..

Two-handed :: Two-handed (a.) Having two hands; -- often used as an epithet equivalent to large, stout, strong, or powerful..

Epithet :: Epithet (n.) Term; expression; phrase.

Epithet :: Epithet (n.) An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn..

Oxymoron :: Oxymoron (n.) A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness..

Epithetical :: Epithetical (a.) Pertaining to, or abounding with, epithets..

Epithetic :: Epithetic (a.) Alt. of Epithetica.

Flowering :: Flowering (a.) Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc..

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