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pseudonym|ps-, ˈsjuːdənɪm|
Also -yme.
[f. med. or mod.L. type *pseudōnymum, a. Gr. ψευδώνυµον, neuter of ψευδώνυµ-ος under a false name, falsely named, f. ψευδο- pseudo- + ὄνοµα name. Cf. homonym, synonym.]
a. A false or fictitious name, esp. one assumed by an author.
1833J. S. Mill in Tait's Edin. Mag. III. 347 Junius Redivivus is the (somewhat inappropriate) pseudonyme of a writer who is one and indivisible. 1847De Quincey Sp. Mil. Nun §8 As a Frenchman says,..‘Chance is but the pseudonyme of God for those particular cases which he does not choose to subscribe openly with his own sign manual’. 1860Holland Miss Gilbert xiv. 254 We would not invade the secret of the musical masculine pseudonym she has assumed. 1880Lit. World 1 Oct. 209/1 Owen Meredith,..under which pseudonym the present Lord Lytton first appeared as an author.
b. Nat. Hist. A name erroneously applied to some other species than that to which it properly belongs; e.g. Nasturtium is a pseudonym of Tropæolum majus, or Indian Cress.
1884Coues in Auk Oct. 321 Pseudonym... (In a special zoological sense) A nickname; a vernacular name, inadmissible in onymy.
So † pseuˈdonymal, pseudoˈnymic adjs. [f. as next + -al1, -ic] = pseudonymous.
1656Blount Glossogr., Pseudonymal, that hath a false or counterfeit name. 1837Beddoes Let. Mar., Poems (1851) p. xcviii, I only print it..for such readers as the pseudonymic lawyer mentioned. 1874Supernatural Relig. II. ii. vii. 141 The..pseudonymic literature of the first centuries. |