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Webster 1913 Edition

Nominal

Nom′i-nal

,
Adj.
[L.
nominalis
, fr.
nomen
,
nominis
, name. See
Name
.]
1.
Of or pertaining to a name or names; having to do with the literal meaning of a word; verbal;
as, a
nominal
definition
.
Bp. Pearson.
2.
Existing in name only; not real;
as, a
nominal
difference
.
“Nominal attendance on lectures.”
Macaulay.

Nom′i-nal

,
Noun.
1.
A nominalist.
[Obs.]
Camden.
2.
(Gram.)
A verb formed from a noun.
3.
A name; an appellation.
A is the
nominal
of the sixth note in the natural diatonic scale.
Moore (Encyc. of Music. )

Webster 1828 Edition

Nominal

NOMINAL

,
Adj.
1.
Titular; existing in name only; as , a nominal distinction or difference is a difference in name and not in reality.
2.
Pertaining to a name or names; consisting in names.

NOMINAL

,
Noun.
The Nominalists were a sect of school philosophers, the disciples of Ocham or Ocdcam, in the 14th century, who maintained that words and not things are the object of dialectics. They were the founders of the university of Leipsic.

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