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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1652
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Vicecognomentally, adv. [Vice- prefix and L. cognomen. Cf. 19th c. Eng. cognomen (1809), cognominally (1825).] By way of a word or name substituted for another. —1652 Tayler Hist. Fam. Urquhart 90.
That patronimical confusion, which, till this hour, is observed in the Highlands of that nation, under the designation of Mack before the father's name … for which translatitiously, both in England, and the low countries of Scotland, we, by an inveterate custom derived from thence, do say as yet, … Hughson, Johnson, etc. vicecognomentally … distinguishing such persons, by an especial syllable in the rear of the word, that represents the sire or progenitor
