innominate
Americanadjective
adjective
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having no name; nameless
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a less common word for anonymous
Etymology
Origin of innominate
First recorded in 1630–40, innominate is from the Late Latin word innōminātus unnamed. See in- 3, nominate
Example Sentences
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Left brachial artery arising from a common innominate trunk, instead of coming off separately from the aortic arch.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various
In like manner, the inferior thyroid veins, whose blood flows into the innominate, are obstructed by valves at the point of junction.
From Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution by Charles Morris
The os innominatum may be so fractured that the pelvic girdle is broken, as in fracture of the iliac shaft, or in a manner that the girdling continuity of the innominate bones is not interrupted.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
One felt immediately that one's hands and feet were peculiarly large and awkward, or one's last remark hopelessly banal, or one's birthplace in some cheap and innominate region outside of Manhattan.
From White Ashes by Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson) Kennedy
They are represented by mouldy, defunct formulæ, and as yet no living popular voice, save that of the revolution of 1789, has been raised to ask where was the underlying life of the innominate crowd?
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891 by Various
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