▪ I. nome
obs. f. name n. and v., numb a.; obs. pa. tense and pa. pple. of nim v.
▪ II. † nome, n.1 Obs. rare.
[Related to nim v.]
a. The act of seizing. b. A captive, a prisoner.
| c 1220 Bestiary 800 In water ȝe is wis of heuekes come, & we in boke wið deules nome. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 2268 Wel faȝen he was of here come, for he was numen ðor to nome. |
▪ III. nome, n.2
(nəʊm)
[ad. Gr. νοµός, f. νέµειν to divide.]
One of the thirty-six territorial divisions of Ancient Egypt.
| a 1727 Newton Chronol. Amended (1728) 22 Sesac. distributes Egypt into xxxvi Nomes, and in every Nome erects a Temple. 1773 Ld. Monboddo Lang. iii. xiii. (1774) I. 638 They were so particular as to name the nome or district in Egypt. 1840 Milman Hist. Christianity II. 435 Seven hundred virgins of Alexandria, and of the Mareotic nome. 1869 Rawlinson Anc. Hist. 234 The division of the whole country into nomes was maintained; and most of the old nomes were kept. 1895 Sayce Egypt of Hebrews 188 The Egypt which lay north of the Theban nome and Lake Mœris. |
▪ IV. nome, n.3
(nəʊm)
[ad. Gr. νόµος, f. νέµειν to divide.]
An ancient Greek form of musical composition. (Cf. quots.)
| 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., Nome is also used for a kind of song, or hymn, in honour of the gods, said to have been invented by Terpander. 1776 Burney Hist. Mus. I. 359 Hyagnis..was the inventor of the Nomes, or airs, that were sung to the mother of the Gods, to Bacchus [etc.]. 1789 Ibid. (ed. 2) I. ix. 152 Aristotle says that dithyrambics, nomes, tragedies, and comedies use alike number, verse, and harmony. 1847 Grote Greece ii. xxix. IV. 102 Olympus as well as Klonas taught many new nomes or tunes on the flute. 1850 Mure Lit. Greece III. 37 The term Nome appears..to have borne a more immediate reference to the music or air, than the poetry or words, of a song. |
▪ V. nome, n.4 Math.
[a. F. nôme, the second element in binôme, etc.: see binomy.]
(See quots.)
| 1665 Collins in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men II. 458 The limits of such equations as have but two nomes. 1704 J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Nome, in Algebra, is any Quantity with a Sign prefixed to it, and by which 'tis usually connected with some other Quantity, and then the whole is called a Binomial, a Trinomial, &c. 1727–38 Chambers Cycl. s.v., a + b is a binomial, whose names or nomes are a and b. |
▪ VI. † nome, v. Obs.
Also 5–6 nomme.
[var. of nim v., by assimilation to the preterite forms: cf. MLG. nomen.]
a. trans. To take. b. intr. To go or pass (quot. c 1390).
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 68 Bereð wurðschipe þerto, uor þe holi sacrament þet ȝe iseoð [v.r. nomeð] þer þurh. c 1315 Shoreham i. 1647 Two manere speches beþ iwoned Þer two men for to nomene. Ibid. iv. 72 And þat a-combreþ swyþe fele Þat none kepe nomeþ. c 1390 Constit. Masonry 546 (Halliw.), Thaȝgh suche a flod aȝayne schulde come, Over the werke hyt schulde not nome. 1486 Bk. St. Albans a viij b, If yowre hawke Nomme a fowle and the fowle breke away fro hir. [1530 Palsgr. 644/2, I nomme, I take (Lydgate), je prens.] |