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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The fascia is then to be scraped through very cautiously, exposing the root of the right carotid, which, being traced downwards, will lead to the innominate.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph
This was no London that he knew, this scented city of Spring, this tropic gloom, this mad innominate cavern that engorged them.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton
And here we may also note that Mr. Heath has lately treated a case of innominate aneurism by simultaneous ligature of the third part of the subclavian and the carotid.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph
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 Kennedy, Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson)
A probe passed along the aorta into the innominate protruded into the same cavity about the bifurcation of the vessel.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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