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Webster 1913 Edition
Vocable
Vo′ca-ble
,Noun.
[L.
vocabulum
an appellation, designation, name, fr. vocare
to call, fr. vox
, vocis
, a voice, a word: cf. F. vocable
. See Voice
.] A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered as composed of certain sounds or letters, without regard to its meaning.
Swamped near to drowning in a tide of ingenious
vocables
. Carlyle.