Nick"name` , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nicknamed (#);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Nicknaming.]
To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname.
You nickname virtue; vice you should have spoke.
Shak. I altogether disclaim what has been nicknamed the doctrine of finality.
Macaulay.
Nick"name` (?), n. [OE.
ekename surname,
hence, a nickname, an ekename being understood as a nekename, influenced also by E. nick, v. See
Eke, and Name.]
A name given in
contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation.
Hear it pronounced