a. Same as Eponymous. [ 1913 Webster ]
Tablets . . . which bear eponymic dates. I. Taylor (The Alphabet). [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One from whom a race, tribe, city, or the like, took its name; an eponym. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Gr. &unr_;;
What becomes . . . of the Herakleid genealogy of the Spartan kings, when it is admitted that eponymous persons are to be canceled as fictions? Grote. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Gr. &unr_; a surname given after some person or thing. ] The derivation of the name of a race, tribe, etc., from that of a fabulous hero, progenitor, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]