NOM 
oF words by which the kinds of individuals are expreffed ; 
a tenet which was priphalc propagate elard, and 
the controverfy ftill concn: 
At the beginning the Nominals had the upper hand: but 
the Realifts, though greatly divided among themfelves, 
were dase by men of great abilities ; {uch as Albertus 
Magnus, T. Aquinas, and Duns Scotus. The Nominal 
fe& eee hereby into difrepute ; 3 till William Occam, in 
the fourteenth century, again revived it, and filled France and 
Germany with the flame of difputation. This fe&, enjoy- 
i ur 0 uis XI. 
. almoft uni- 
flourifhed more than ever. In the fifteenth century, the 
controverfy was continued with more vigour and animofity 
than ever; and the difputants were not content with ufing 
merely the force of eloquence, but had frequently recourfe 
to more hoftile and dangerous weapons; and battles were 
the confequence of a philofophical queftion, which neither 
fide underftood. In moft places, however, the Realifts 
caetaied a manife 
fevere edi@ againft 
ordered all their writings to be feized and fecured, that they 
might not be read by the people, aaa the academic 
youth to renounce their dodrines this, the leaders 
of the fe& fled into Germany and Pape. whence, at the 
beginning of the Reformation, they met with a {trong rein- 
forcement, in Luther, Melan&thon, and others. However, 
the fame monarch mitigated this edi€& the year following, 
and permitted fome of the books of that fe& to be delivered 
from their confinement. In the year nay e not only 
thority and luftre in the univer ty. ee aE iil. 8vo. 
Brucker’s Phil. by Enfield, vo 
e Nominaliffs were the foamiens of the univerfity of 
Leipfic : there are many yet abroad who pique themfelves 
on being Nominals. 
The Nominals, with the Stoics, adie the formal con- 
ceptions or ideas of things, as the fubje& and foundation of 
NOM 
nner, and 
ae a great aay of Gai cae 
alike in a and fpe 
Nce it is a pee are called Nominals; as pretend- 
ing, that to become learned, it is not enough to have juft 
ideas of things, but it is likewife required to kno the oa 
per names of the genera and {pecies of thin 
able to exprefs them Sent = precifely, wiiout confufion 
or ambiguity. See Rea 
NOMINATION, i ae of pene and appointing a 
a for fome function, employ, or b ce. 
word is chiefly ufed oe re seit of prefenting to a 
benefice, & c 
common law, however, aN is a difference between 
nomination and prefentation ; the 
as, by erie of a manor, or other- 
wife, to appoint or name a clerk to a patronof a benefice, 
to be by him prefented to the ordinary. See PREsENTA- 
ION. 
NOMINATIVE, in Grammar, the firft cafe of nouns 
a are declineable. 
as see matter o 
formed, by the feveral changes and inflections given to this 
firft termination. Ss 
tschief ufe is to be placed i in difcourfe before all verbs, 
as the fubje&t of the propofition, or affirmatio omi- 
page oes i me, the Lord governs me 3 Dens exaudit me, God 
ears 
NOMINATOR, he who names or prefents a perfon to 
an office, or benefice. 
ence nominee, the perfon named or prefented. 
Errard obferves, that there are fome cuftoms where the 
eee is refponfible for the folvibility of the nominee. 
E Pew2, in Law, is a penalty incurred for not 
paying aay &c. at the day appointed by the leafe or agree- 
ment, for the payment thereof. 
NOMINIS Ipewtirate. See IpEntiT 
NOMION, in Mufic, a kind of oe ong with the 
reeks. 
eae MeLora@ia, an 
NOMISNY Bay, in Geography, a bay on the river Po- 
tomack, on the coaft of Virginia. N. lat. 38° 11/. 
long. 46° 
ROMOCANON, compounded of YOO» law, and xay WV y 
canon, or rule, a colle&tion of canons, and of imperial laws 
relative or conformable thereto. See CANON. 
rft nomocanon was made by Shai Scholafticus, in 
Photius, patriarch of Conftantinople in 883, com- 
iled another nomocanon, or collation of the civil laws with 
the canons: this i is dha ae celebrated. Balfamon wrote a 
commentary on it i 
NomocaNnon alfo ee a colleGtion of the ancient ca- 
nons of the aostles hea and fathers; without any re- 
gard to imperial conttitu 
uch is the nomocanon publithe d by M. Cot 
Nomocanon is fometimes alfo ufed for a nite book 
of the Greeks. 
NOMOPHYLACES, Nopozvawxes, among the Athe- 
nians, magiftrates who were to fee the laws executed, being 
not unlike to our fheriffs. They had the execution of cri- 
minals 
