In each case, though, both the namer and the named seemed to be acting altruistically. |
Linnaeus, that great Swedish namer of plants, was pretty circumspect too when he called it Lycopersicon esculentum, the edible wolf-peach. |
He has gone, one might say, from explicator to gnostic namer, from the secular, discursive Horatian thinker-poet to a more compressed priest-like voice, intent on Mystery. |
As each player gets his name, he or she turns their back to the namer. |
The leader or namer on one side and the guesser on the other take sides. |
Noah is the supreme symbol of science, he the first namer of the animals in the ark. |