denominate
verb (used with object)
to give a name to; denote; designate.
have denominated
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present perfectof denominate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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I come now to the consideration of those which I have denominated morally defective traits.
From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 by Thomas Clarkson
What others might have denominated as "dirty work" he accepted with heavy impassivity, consoling himself with the contention that its final end was cleanness.
From Never-Fail Blake by Arthur Stringer
Those who secretly favour, whilst they affect to regret, domestic slavery, contend that in abolishing it, we must also abolish that scion from it which I have denominated civil slavery.
From Dissertation on Slavery With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it, in the State of Virginia by St. George Tucker
They are, I believe, what I have denominated them—the wit of words.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
Eccentric forms.—In this place I am able to give but one example of what I have denominated eccentric forms.
From Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 361-436 by William Henry Holmes
