innominate, a.
(ɪˈnɒmɪnət)
[ad. late L. innōmināt-us (Boethius), f. in- (in-3) + nōmināt-us nominate.]
1. Not named, unnamed, anonymous.
| 1638 Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 306 Zeyloon..was not innominate to the Antients. 1686 Goad Celest. Bodies i. ix. 36 The Spirit called Light or Heat, is Innominate of itself. 1692 Ray Dissol. World ii. v. (1732) 221 Communicated by an innominate Person. 1847 Blackw. Mag. LXI. 630 Better to live for ever innominate in a song. 1898 19th Cent. Sept. 304 The infant and still innominate Church. |
2. Roman Law. Of a contract: Unclassified: see quot. 1818.
| 1774 S. Hallifax Anal. Rom. Law (1795) 62 Innominate Contracts were usually ranged under four classes, expressive of the Consideration on which they were founded. 1. Do ut des. 2. Do ut facias. 3. Facio ut des. 4. Facio ut facias. 1818 Colebrooke Treat. Oblig. & Contr. I. 18 Unnamed or innominate contracts are those which had no certain denomination denoting their particular nature. 1875 Poste Gaius iii. 372. 1880 Muirhead Gaius ii. §89 note. |
3. Anat. innominate bone (Os innominatum), the hip-bone, a union of three original bones: see quot. 1879. innominate artery (Arteria innominata), a large artery given off from the arch of the aorta, just before the left carotid artery. innominate vein (Vena innominata), each of the two veins formed by the junction of the subclavian and the internal jugular veins behind the inner ends of the clavicle.
| [1706 Phillips, Innominata Ossa,..the Nameless Bones, two large Bones plac'd on the sides of the Os Sacrum.] 1866 Huxley Preh. Rem. Caithn. 87 The right innominate bone was restored after the model of the left. 1870 Rolleston Anim. Life Introd. 52 The aorta [in birds] divides after a very short course into three great trunks, by giving off two subequal innominate arteries. 1876 Trans. Clin. Soc. IX. 112 The innominate veins were stretched over the sac. 1879 Wright Anim. Life 6 Each innominate bone is made up of three bones, ilium, ischium, and pubis. |
b. absol. as n. (also in L. form innominatum, -ata): = innominate bone, artery, or vein.
| 1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 407 The first part of the aorta..was greatly dilated..the innominate was also dilated. 1880 Med. Temp. Jrnl. July 184 Aneurism of the innominata. 1886 Syd. Soc. Lex. s.v., The three parts of the innominate are fused into one bone in Mammals and Birds, in Reptiles there are three separate bones. |