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‖ mutato nomine, advb. phr.|mjuːˈtɑːtəʊ ˈnəʊmɪneɪ|
[L., f. mutato, ablative sing. of pa. pple. of mūtāre to change + nomine, ablative sing. of nōmen name.]
‘The name being changed’: applicable in a transferred context if the name of the person, place, etc., is altered accordingly.
The original phrase (cited in quot. 1621) quotes Horace Sat. i. i. 69.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. (Democritus to Reader) 37 Accounting it an excellent thing..to make our selues merry with other mens obliquities, when as he himselfe is more faultie than the rest, mutato nomine de ta fabula narratur, he may take himselfe by the nose for a foole. a1661Fuller Worthies (1662) Lincs. 153 Which Proverb, Mutato Nomine, is used in other Counties. 1828J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. IX. 146 Nobody would pretend that a man unacquainted with the properties of simple substances would be perfectly capable of performing such an analysis, or that the knowledge of the ultimate elements of bodies was of no service to the chemist. The same observations apply, mutato nomine, to the logician, and the syllogism. 1840J. B. Fraser Koordistan II. vi. 152 The words of Burns, mutato nomine, describe their country exactly. 1860Thackeray in Cornhill Mag. May 632 A score of such queer names and titles I have smiled at in America. And, mutato nomine? |