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‖ prosonoˈmasia Obs.
[mod.L., a. Gr. προσονοµασία a naming, appellation, f. προσονοµάζειν to call by a name, f. πρός to + ὀνοµάζειν to name.]
Properly, a calling by a name, a nicknaming. (By Day confused with paronomasia.)
1586A. Day Eng. Secretary i. (1625) 110 Hee is somewhat a foolosopher, for he carries all his possessions about him [margin Prosonomasia]. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xviii. (Arb.) 212 If any other man can geue him a fitter English name, I will not be angrie, but I am sure mine is very neere the originall sence of the Prosonomasia, and is rather a by-name geuen in sport, than a surname geuen of any earnest purpose. As, Tiberius the Emperor, because he was a great drinker of wine, they called him..Caldius Biberius Mero, in steade of Claudius Tiberius Nero: and so a iesting frier that wrate against Erasmus, called him..Errans mus, and are mainteined by this figure Prosonomasia, or the Nicknamer. |