单词 | autonomasia |
释义 | autonomasian. Now rare. = antonomasia n.; (sometimes) spec. the substitution of a common noun (in an accepted specific sense) for a proper name; = autonomasy n. ΚΠ 1806 Brit. Critic Oct. 353 The view of this figure [of metaphor] is defective, as no notice whatever is taken of its subordinate species, the metonymy, synecdoché, autonomasia, &c. 1835 Brit. Cycl. Arts & Sci. II. 46/2 In the first of these, which is termed autonomasia, a common or general word is sometimes used for the proper name of some particular thing or person... So we say, ‘He is gone to the city’,..that is, London. 1849 C. J. Hanford & R. Kershaw tr. J. L. Balmes Protestantism & Catholicity Compared lx. 294/2 Aristotle's authority was of great weight; he was called by an autonomasia, the Philosopher. 1879 Literary Examiner 27 Dec. 1680/2 People in talking and writing use the autonomasia, a Boniface, a Lothario, a Lady Bountiful, the real Simon Pure, and so on. 1900 Idler 17 409 Autonomasia calls a man A Horace, a Macpherson. 2001 D. S. Kastan Shakespeare & Bk. iv. 120 Insisting on metrical norms that ‘our poet’—and Wells's autonomasia is revealing—could easily have chosen to violate. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1806 |
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