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eponymous
/əˈpɑnəməs/
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What does eponymous mean?
adjective
- Of, relating to, or being the person or entity after which someone or something is named; serving as an eponym.
- Of a thing: named after a person or entity.
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/əˈpɑnəməs/
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Among this people are still to be found certain remnants of the matriarchal age--an age in which women were the recognized heads of families and the eponymous leaders of the gentes or clans.
The Ebionites--who were simply Judaizing Christians, holding in nearly its original form the doctrine of Peter, James, and John--were ejected from the Church as the most pernicious of heretics; and so completely was their historic position misunderstood and forgotten, that, in order to account for their existence, it became necessary to invent an eponymous heresiarch, Ebion, who was supposed to have led them astray from the true faith!