cognominal

1. (obsolete) One bearing the same name.Examples: "And therefore although it be not denied that ſome in the water doe carry a juſtifiable reſemblance to ſome at the Land, yet are the major part which beare their names unlike; nor doe they otherwiſe reſemble the creatures on earth, then they on earth the conſtellations which paſſe under animall names in heaven: nor the Dog-fiſh at ſea much more make out the Dog of the land, then that his cognominall or name-ſake in the heavens."; "Different-named Fractions, reduced to cognominals, or Same-named [Fractions], and withall added and Subducted."; "He [Hercules] was probably possessed of vast muscular strength, as well as undaunted courage: whence his name has been proverbially applied, through every successive age, to the possessor of the same qualities; in consequence of which, it is not improbable that, in many instances, the exploits of his cognominals or descendants have been attributed to himself. He must have existed, however, and have been deified at a very early period of the world, for we find traditions concerning him almost as early as those of Jupiter Ammon[…]"obsolete