DENOMINATION

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The act of naming or designating.

2.
n.

That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals; a category; as, the denomination of units, or of thousands, or of fourths, or of shillings, or of tons. Those [qualities] which are classed under the denomination of sublime. Burke.

3.
n.

A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect; as, a denomination of Christians.