appelation

Updated: June 17, 2025

At first they seemed to agree, and were tractable until a patriotic but unlucky impulse induced me to give them the names of a few prominent Generals in the late war. After that, oh, my! The twelve consist of different varieties. One of the twelve seems a cross of panther and wild cat, and rejoices in the appelation of "Aye Aye."

Mifflin Wistar Gibbs - Shadow and Light : An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century

Still, however, the early authors of the province continued to call it by the general appelation of "The Manhattoes," and the poets fondly clung to the euphonious name of Manna-hata; but those are a kind of folk whose tastes and notions should go for nothing in matters of this kind.

Washington Irving - Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete