nomadism 
nomadism I nom'a-di/.in), it. [= F. 
us HHiiiutl + -IKHI'.'\ Tin- st;iii- i >f being nom- 
ad; Itolllililie Illlbils nr tendencies.. 
The struck-;* wliirh ;iin'ii'ntly iimsi- hi-twi'iMi umii<lutin 
ami III' [Mini, itlll. rl\ ili/:il lull . .Aported to iU 'lni.i.i. li 
in, .ill, Ainrr. AiU/irnpoliKjul, I. 17. 
nomadize (uoin'a-di/.), r. /'.; prct. iiiiil |i|>. iiinii- 
iiili.nl, ppr. iKiii/inli-iiii/. [= !'. iioiHiKli.il i'; as 
/I/muni + -i:<-.\ To live :i nniMMitie life; wan- 
di i- about from place to place with flocks and 
IMTI!S for the sake of finding pasturage; snl.M-t 
by the gni/.iii"; of herds on herbage of natural 
growth. Also spclli-il niiiniKliiH:. 
The Vogules wnnadue chiefly about the riverB Irtish, 
Oby, Kama, and Volga, /',;.,/,, 
A separate tribe, the Filmans, i <: Kinnmans, nrnnadiu 
ahuut the Pazyets, Mototl, and Petchenga tundras. 
Kitcyc. Brit., XIV. 306. 
nomancyt (no'man-si), n. [< F. nomancie (= 
Sp. Hoinnnna), abbr. from ononuntcie (see OHO- 
iHiincy), appar. by confusion with F. iu>m, name.] 
The art or practice of divining the destiny of 
persons by the letters which form their names. 
Johnson. 
no-man's-land (no'manz-land), . 1. A tract 
or district to which no one can lay a recognized 
or established claim ; a region which is the sub- 
ject of dispute between two parties; debatable 
laud. SIM- ill-bit table. 
Some observers have established an intermediate king- 
dom, a sort of no- man'0-land, for the reception of those de- 
batable organisms which cannot be definitely and posi- 
tively classed either amongst vegetables or amongst ani- 
mals. II. A. Xicholton. 
2. Same as Jack's land (which see, under Jut-k^). 
3. A fog-bank. 
nomarch (uom'iirk), n. [= F. nomarque, < Gr. 
voftupx'Ki the chief or governor of a province, < 
vo/tof, a province, + ap^eiv, rule.] The gov- 
ernor or prefect of a uome or department in 
modern Greece. 
nomarchy (nom'ar-ki), .; pi. nomarchies (-kiz). 
[< Gr. voftapx'ia, the office or government of a 
in .IM:I iv h, < vofiapxis, a nomarch : see nomarch.] 
A government or department under a nom- 
avcli, as in modern Greece; the jurisdiction 
of a nomarch. 
noniarthral (no-mar'thral), a. [< Gr. v6[io<;, 
law, + apffpov, a joint: see arthral.] Normally 
articulated; not having the dorsolumbar ver- 
tebral joints peculiar: applied to the edentates 
of the Old World, in distinction from those of 
the New World, which are xenarthral. T. GUI, 
Stand. Nat. Hist., V. 66. 
nomblest, See numbles. 
nombret, H. and r. An obsolete form of number. 
nombril (nom'bril), w. [< F. nombril, < L. um- 
bilicus. navel: see numbles and 
iniibilicvs.] In her., same as na- 
vel point (which see, under navel). 
nonie't, . An obsolete form of 
E, fesse-point : f-', 
nombril : (.'. base- 
point. 
nome'-t, and r. An obsolete 
form of Hitmb (original past par- 
ticiple of Jiim 1 ). 
nome 3 (nom), n. [< F. n6me (in 
alg.), < L. nomen, a name: see 
nomtn, name*.] In alg., a term. 
nome 4 (nom), n. [< F. nome = Pg. nomo, < L. 
noinus, nomos,<. Gr. vopof,a district, department, 
province/ vi/atv, deal out, distribute, have and 
hold, use. dwell in, pasture, graze, etc. : see 
mm 1 .] A province or other political division 
of a country, especially of modern Greece and 
ancient Egypt. 
i . .ins of the notnci of Egypt were struck only by Trajan, 
Hadrian, and Antoninus Pius. Encyc. Brit., XVII. 661. 
nome r> (nom), n. [< F. iiinnr = Pg. nomo; < 
Gr. i-iiniH , a usage, custom, law, ordinance, a 
musical strain, a kind of song or ode, < vi- 
uttv, distribute, have and hold, possess, use, 
etc. : see oie*.] In anc. Gr. music, a rule or 
form of melodic composition ; hence, a song or 
melody conforming to such an artistic stan- 
dard. " Also nomos. 
i if the choric songs Westphal held that the real model 
was the old Terpandrian nome. 
Quarterly Rev., CLXII. 103. 
nome (no'me), n. [< L. notice, usually in pi. 
iitiiiiir, < (Jr. ri'iiij, a spreading (voual t'/niw, 
spreading sores), lit. a grazing, < vt/utv, graze: 
si i' )<*.] In ]>athol., same as noma. 
nomen (uo'mcn), .; pi. ii<>mm(nom'i-nii). [L., 
a name : see name 1 .] A name ; specifically. 
a name distinguishing the gens or clan, being 
the middle one of the thn-r names generally 
borne by an ancient Roman of good birth: as, 
4000 
Cains Julian Caesar, of the gens of the .lulii; 
Man -us I'lii/mx Cicero, of the gens of the Tul- 
lii. See <;/(. In natural history nomen has specific 
uses: (a) The technical name of any organism that it, 
the name which is tenable according to recognized laws 
of zoological and botanical nomenclature; an onym. (rtee 
imi/m.) (ft) Any word which enters into the usual bino- 
mial designation of a specie* of animal* or plants ; a ge- 
neric or specific n;mir. In the Linnean nomenclature, 
the basis of the present sysU-mattc nonu-nclature in zool- 
ogy and botany, nomina were distinguished as the nomen 
S/enerieum and the ituinen trimale. Nomen genertcum, 
the generic name. See gema. Nomen nudum, a bare 
or mere name, unaccompanied by any description, and 
therefore not entitled to recognition. Nomen apecifl- 
cum. nomen triviale, the specific or trivial name 
which, coupled "with and following the nomen generlcum, 
completes the technical designation of an animal or a 
plant. See medet. 
nomenclative (no'men-kla-tiv), a. [< nomen- 
clat(ure) + -ire.] Pertaining to naming. ft'hil- 
ii i>l. 
nomenclator (no'men-kla-tor), . [= F. uo- 
iin-iii-luteur = Sp. ni>me>iclator=^ Pg. nomenclador 
= It. nomenclatore, < L. nomenclator, sometimes 
tutmencuUitor, one who calls by name, < nomen, 
a name, + calarc, call: see calends.'] 1. A per- 
son who calls things or persons by their names. 
In ancient Rome candidates canvassing for office, when 
appearing in nubile, were attended each Dyanoinenclator, 
who informed the candidate of the names of the persons 
they met, thus enabling him to address them by name. 
What, wUl Cupid turn nnrnrndator, and cry them? 
B. JUIUKHI, Cynthia's Revels, v. 3. 
Their names are knowne to the all-knowing power above, 
and In the meane while doubtlesse they wreck not whether 
you or your Suinendatnr know them or not. 
MUton, On Del. of Humb. Kemonst 
2. One who or that which gives names, or ap- 
plies individual or technical names. 
Keeds must that Name Infallible Success 
Assert, where Ood the Xiimticlator Is. 
./. Beaumont, Psyche, 111. 86. 
3. A list of names arranged alphabetically or 
in some other system; a glossary; a vocabu- 
lary; especially, a list of scientific names so 
arranged. 
nomenclatorial (no'men-kla-to'ri-al), o. [< 
nomenclator + -ial.~] Of or pertaining to a no- 
menelator or to the act of naming; nomencla- 
tory. 
It may be advisable to remark that tifrmeHclatunal pu- 
rists, objecting to the names Pitta and Phllepitta as "bar- 
barous," call the former Coloburis and the latter Paictes. 
A. Newton, Eucyc. Brit, XIX. 149. 
nomenclatory (no'men-kla-to-ri), a. [< no- 
menclator + -y.~] Of or pertaining to naming; 
naming. 
Every conceptual act Is so Immediately followed as to 
seem accompanied by a ntmttwlatory one. 
Whitney, Life and Growth of Language, p. 139. 
nomenclatress (no'men-kla-tres), n. [< no- 
menclator + -ess.'] A female nomenclator. 
I have a wife who In a Xmnenclalreti, and will be ready, 
on any occasion, to attend the ladies, tfuanlian, No. 107. 
nomenclatural (no'men-kla-tu-ral), a. [< 
nomenclature + -/.] Pertaining of according 
to a nomenclature. 
nomenclature (no'men-kla-tur), n. [= F. no- 
menclature = Sp. Pg. It. nomenclatiira, < L. no- 
menclatura, a calling by name, a list of names, 
< nomen, name, + calarc, call: see nomencla- 
tor.] If. A name. 
To say where notions cannot fitly be reconciled, that 
there wanteth a term or nnmrndature for It, la but a shift 
of Ignorance. Boom, Nat Hist 
2. A system of names; the systematic naming 
of things ; specifically, the names of things in 
any art or science, or the whole vocabulary of 
names or technical terms which are appropri- 
ated to any particular branch of science: as, 
the nomenclature of botany or of chemistry. 
Compare terminology. 
If I could envy any man for successful ill-nature, I 
should envy Lord Byron for his skill in satirical nomen- 
clature. Sydney SntttA, To Lady Holland, 
The purposes of natural science require that ite numen. 
dature shall be capable of exact definition, and that every 
descriptive technical term be rigorously limited to the 
expression of the precise quality or mode of action to the 
designation of which it is applied. 
Harth, Lects. on Eng. Lang., Till. 
3f. A glossary, vocabulary, or dictionary. 
There was at the end of the grammar a little nwnttu-la- 
turr, called "The Christian Man's Vocabulary," which 
gave new appellations or (if yon will) Christian names to 
almost everything in life. 
Additon, Religions In Waxwork. 
Binary, binomial, polynomial nomenclature. See 
the adjectives. = Syn. 3. Dictionary, Glossary, etc. See 
vocabulary. 
Nomia (nd'nd-fi, . [NL. (Lutreillc. 1*04), < 
Gr. t'6/jiof, of shepherds, pastoral. < ro/r 
nominalism 
shepherd, < I///MI, pnslurc: sei- nome*, nmn<iit.\ 
1. A genus of bees of the family .Imln niiln . 
Thcseconil Miliiii.iiginiil ri II is . ( u:i. h.it. ,' nearly >o, and 
in .1 nut-rowed toward tile marginal cell ; the body l large ; 
Hi. hind lugs of the male are more or lex deformed ; and 
tli, .i|iii-ul uiit4-nn.il joint of the male Is elongate and not 
dilated. The curiotlH curvature, dilatation, and spinoslty 
of the III;I|I''H hind li-gM distinguish llti> genus and Ewto- 
mia from all other andrenlda. There are two North Ameri- 
can specie*, from Nevada and Texas. 
2. A genus of tineid moths tumuli il i.\ i I. n, 
ens in May, 1860, and changed in August of that 
year to Chrysopora, the only species being imw 
called r. tini/iildcella. 
nomial (no'mi-al), n. [< ;t a -I- -itil.] In 
"';/ & single name or term. 
nomlc 1 (nom'ik), a. an<l n. [< Gr. vo/uKur,, per- 
taining to the law, conventional, < i'//<;, a law, 
usage, custom : see nome 4 .] I. ". Customary or 
conventional: applied to the present mode of 
English spelling: opposed to (llosnic oriihom-tii: 
A. J. Ellis. 
II. . [cap.] The customary or conventional 
English spelling. See Glotmc. A. J. Ellis. 
nomic' 2 (nom'ik), a. [<nome + -ic. Cl.nomicl.] 
Of or pertaining to a nome. See nome 6 . 
Prof. Merger has pointed out many cases In which Pin- 
dar thus employs a recurrent word to guide the hearer to 
the proper apprehension of the nomic march In his poems. 
Quarterly Ret., CLXII. 187. 
nomina. . Plural of nomen. 
nominal (nom'i-nal), a. and n. [= F. nominal 
= Sp. Pg. nominal = It. nomiiial<; < L. nomi- 
inilis, pertaining to a name or to names, < - 
HUH, a name: seenowen, name 1 .] I. a. 1. Per- 
taining to a name or term; giving the meaning 
of a word; verbal: as, a nominal definition. 
The nominal definition or derivation of a word Is not 
sufficient to describe the nature of it. lip. Pearton. 
2. Of or pertaining to a noun or substantive. 
3. Existing in name only; not real; osten- 
sible; merely so called: as, a nominal distinc- 
tion or difference; a nominal Christian ; nomi- 
nal assets; a nominal price. 
Thus the mind has three sorts of abstract Ideas, or nom- 
inal essences. Locke, Human Understanding, II. xxxl. 1-1. 
Yon must have been long enough In this house to see 
that 1 am but a nominal mistress of it, that my real power 
is nothing. Jane Aiuteii, Northanger Abbey, p. liiS. 
In numerous savage tribes the judicial function of the 
chief doea not exist, or Is nominal. 
n. Spencer, Man vs. State, p. 46. 
4. Nominalistic nominal consideration, a con- 
sideration so trivial in comparison with the real value 
as to be substantially equivalent to nothing, and usually 
named only as a form, without Intending payment, as a 
consideration of one dollar in a deed of lands. Nominal 
damages. See damage. Nominal division, exchange, 
horse-power, mode, etc. See the noons. Nominal 
party, In law, one named as a party on the record of an ac- 
tion, nut having no interest in the action. 
II. n. If. A nominalist. 
Thomists, Reals, Nominate. Burton, Anat of Mel., p. 677. 
2. A verb formed from a noun ; a denominative. 
nominalism ( n. ini'i-nal-i/.fM ).. ( = !'. nominal- 
isme ; as nominal + -isnt.] The doctrine that 
nothing is general but names; more specifical- 
ly, the doctrine that common nouns, as man, 
horse, represent in their generality nothing in 
the real things, but are mere conveniences for 
speaking of many things at once, or at most 
necessities of human thought; individualism. 
Medieval thinkers, especially those of the twelfth cen- 
tury, are classified as being either nominalists or real- 
ists; modem philosophers have generally joined in the 
condemnation of medieval realism, but have neverthe- 
less lii-en mostly rather realists than nominalists. The 
following are the most important varieties of nominal- 
ism : (a) That of the Stoles, who held that tbe only sort 
of thing that Is not universal, and Indeed the only sort 
that is not corporeal, Is the meaning of a word (Or. 
Adcrbf, L. dictio) as something different from the actual 
thought and distinct for each language. (6) That of Bos- 
cellin, condemned by the Church In 1002, which, though 
regarded as novel doctrine by his contemporaries, BO that 
he has often been called the Inventor of nominalism, 
had In substance been taught for two hundred yean 
without attracting any particular attention. His views, no 
far as we can gather them from the reports of malicious 
adversaries. In the light of other nominalUtlc texts, were 
as follows. Various relations, usually considered as real, 
such as the relation of a wall to a house as a part of it, 
have no existence In the things themselves, bnt are due to 
the way we think about the things. Colors are nothing 
over and above the colored bodies. He held that nothing 
exists bnt individuals, and according to St. Anselm waa 
" buried In corporal images." His opinion concerning 
univenals was not called naminalimi, hut the tententia 
nevm, or tneoUtm. Anselm states that he held universal* 
to be nothing but the breath of the voice (Jtatvi corii). 
This statement should not be hastily put aside aa an 
enemy's misrepresentation, for the authorities agree that 
he made universal! to be. not words, bnt vocal sounds ; 
and since the breath was In his time and long after hardly 
regarded as a material thing, he may quite probably have 
been so " buried in corporal images "as to have confounded 
the breath of the voice with an incorporeal form, which 
agrees with a report that he was a follower of the pantheist 
