prosopopoeiaprosopopeian.

Brit.

/ˌprɒsə(ʊ)pəˈpiːə/, U.S.

/prəˌsoʊpəˈpiə/,

/ˌprɑsəpəˈpiə/

Forms: 1500s prosopopeya, 1500s prosopopoiia, 1500s–1600s prosopopaeia, 1500s–1600s prosopopaia, 1500s–1600s prosopopoia, 1500s–1700s prosopopoea, 1500s– prosopopeia, 1500s– prosopopoeia, 1600s prosopopaea, 1600s prosopopeiae, 1600s prosopopoeja.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin prosōpopoeia.

Etymology: < classical Latin prosōpopoeia speech composed and delivered in the character of another person, impersonation (Quintilian), in post-classical Latin also representation of inanimate or abstract thing as speaking or as displaying other characteristics of an animate, conscious being (from 13th cent. in British sources) < Hellenistic Greek προσωποποιία < ancient Greek πρόσωπον face, person (see prosopon n.) + -ποιία -poeia comb. form. Compare Italian prosopopea (1308). Compare prosopopey n.

1. A rhetorical device by which an imaginary, absent, or dead person is represented as speaking or acting; the introduction of a pretended speaker; an instance of this. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > pretended speaker

prosopopey1550

prosopopoeia1550

sermocination1753

1550 R. Sherry Treat. Schemes & Tropes sig. E.iii These foresayd sixe kindes [of rhetorical description] Quintiliane dothe put vnder Prosopopeia.

1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalips xxxii. 199 We vnderstande these thinges to be spoken by a figure called Prosopopeia: that is by the fayning of a persone.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. B4^v His notable Prosopopeias, when he maketh you as it were, see God comming in his Maiestie.

1609 R. Bernard Faithfull Shepheard (new ed.) 67 Prosopopeia; the feigning of a person: when wee bring in dead men speaking, or our selues doe take their person vpon vs, or giue voice vnto senselesse things.

1647 J. Sprigge Anglia Rediviva Addr. sig. *B4 Feigned speeches, Prosopopeia's, and Epistrophe's.

1699 Protestant Mercury 28 Apr.–3 May No. 365. 2/2 Also Rules for making Colloquies, Essays, Fables, Prosopopaia's.

1759 Dict. Holy Bible II. 591/1 Then, by a beautidul prosopopoeia, he introduces the dead greeting his arrival among them.

1787 G. Gregory tr. R. Lowth Lect. Sacred Poetry Hebrews (1816) I. xiii. 280 Prosopopœia, or Personification. Of this figure there are two kinds: one, when action and character are attributed to fictitious, irrational, or even inanimate objects; the other, when a probable but fictitious speech is assigned to a real character.

1877 J. Morley Crit. Misc. 2nd Ser. 153 This is his one public literary Equivocation..it was resorted to..to give additional weight by means of a harmless prosopopoeia to an argument for the noblest of principles.

1922 L. H. Wild Lit. Guide Bible ii. iii. 47 Prosopopoeia, representing an actual or ideal person as present or speaking.

1995 D. Donoghue Walter Pater xviii. 201 She summons him to appear, as in the rhetorical figure of prosopopoeia.

a. A figure of speech by which an inanimate or abstract thing is represented as a person, or as having personal characteristics, esp. the power to think or speak; an instance of this; = personification n. 1.Formerly an aspect of sense 1: see quots. 1609, 1787.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > personification

rhetoric?c1400

prosopopoeia1563

feigning of person1573

personification1728

personifying1728

personization1890

1563 R. Reynolds Foundacion of Rhetorike f. 50 Concerning Prosopopœia, it is..when to any one againste nature, speache is feigned to bee giuen.

1578 T. Tymme tr. J. Calvin Comm. Genesis 142 Clemency and gentleness..is attributed therevnto, by a figure called Prosopopoiia [Gk. κατα προσωποπιιας].

1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) 276 The universall triumph and gladnesse as it were of all creatures (in an elegant Prosopopeia) is intimated.

1676 T. Shadwell Virtuoso i. 9 He makes Flowers, nay, Weeds, speak eloquently, and, by a noble kind of Prosopopeia, instruct Mankind.

1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. v. xxii. 314 Sentiments, and Vices, which by a marvellous Prosopopœia he converts into so many Ladies.

1758 T. Leland Hist. Reign Philip King of Macedon iv. 148 He makes use of a remarkably beautiful prosopopoeia, and imagines that the several powers of Greece thus call on the Athenians to account for their conduct.

1884 A. Lambert in 19th Cent. June 947 Prosopopœia has no place even in popular science.

1885 Mind 10 150 The Prosopopœia is written in the form of a contention before judges between the soul and the body.

1911 Mod. Lang. Notes 26 165/2 A ‘Prosopopoeia’, in which the Lover's Heart addresses the Breast of his second Lady.

1992 M. Blonsky Amer. Mythologies xviii. 451 He's completely changed the face of the city—there it is, the face, a prosopopeia, the trope that fools us that the thing we're struggling with is as stable as our own reassuring faces.

†b. In extended use: a person or thing in which some quality or abstraction is embodied; the embodiment or epitome of something. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > [noun] > a physical representation of abstraction

picture1553

imagery1596

prosopopoeia1825

embodiment1828

1825 B. Disraeli Let. 12 Nov. (1982) 49 A man, who might fairly be considered as a very prosopopeia of the Public Press.

1857 P. St. G. Cooke Scenes & Adventures in Army xxii. 156 The militia (that prosopopoeia of weakness, waste, and confusion) had been called out.

1867 G. A. Macfarren Six Lect. Harmony iv. 149 Everywhere at once..the prosopopœia of ubiquity.

Derivatives

prosopoˈpoeial adj. = prosopopoeic adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [adjective] > relating to prosopopoeia

prosopopoeical1576

prosopopoeial1577

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iv. iii. sig. Ddd.iii/2 To this place now doe belong the Prosopopeiall speeches of God [L. Dei prosopopœiæ.].

1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 278 I could have used,..Apostrophal and Prosopopœial diversions.

1991 Jrnl. Musicol. 9 190 The prosopopoeial evocation of the dead.

2001 Columbia Law Rev. 101 1879 The gift is prosopopoeial; in Part II, speaking from beyond the grave, it tells us that no amount of theoretical dirt will completely fill the holes or gaps in the legal stories about who gives what to whom.

prosopoˈpoeic adj. of, relating to, or involving prosopopoeia.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adjective] > relating to personification

prosopopoeic1883

personificative1890

1883 H. Cotterill Does Science Aid Faith? 57 A poetic and prosopopœic representation of the attribute of Divine wisdom.

1950 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 40 20 It is suitable to contrast the prosopopoeic virtuosity of Thucydides' other disciple, the Roman Sallust.

2000 Renaissance Q. 53 171 Lanyer also uses the prosopopoeic description of Cooke-ham to idealize the Countess's estate.

† prosopopoeical adj. Obsolete = prosopopoeic adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [adjective] > relating to prosopopoeia

prosopopoeical1576

prosopopoeial1577

1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. Argt. 192 He hath a Prosopopoical speach to his countrie.

1656 J. Smith Myst. Rhetorique Unvail'd 149 Thus in Joel 2. from 1. to the 12. ver. you have a most lively Rhetorical Prosopopoeical description of the terrible Army of the Babylonians.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	prosopopoeia
释义	prosopopoeiaprosopopeian. Brit. /ˌprɒsə(ʊ)pəˈpiːə/, U.S. /prəˌsoʊpəˈpiə/, /ˌprɑsəpəˈpiə/ Forms: 1500s prosopopeya, 1500s prosopopoiia, 1500s–1600s prosopopaeia, 1500s–1600s prosopopaia, 1500s–1600s prosopopoia, 1500s–1700s prosopopoea, 1500s– prosopopeia, 1500s– prosopopoeia, 1600s prosopopaea, 1600s prosopopeiae, 1600s prosopopoeja. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin prosōpopoeia. Etymology: < classical Latin prosōpopoeia speech composed and delivered in the character of another person, impersonation (Quintilian), in post-classical Latin also representation of inanimate or abstract thing as speaking or as displaying other characteristics of an animate, conscious being (from 13th cent. in British sources) < Hellenistic Greek προσωποποιία < ancient Greek πρόσωπον face, person (see prosopon n.) + -ποιία -poeia comb. form. Compare Italian prosopopea (1308). Compare prosopopey n. 1. A rhetorical device by which an imaginary, absent, or dead person is represented as speaking or acting; the introduction of a pretended speaker; an instance of this. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > pretended speaker prosopopey1550 prosopopoeia1550 sermocination1753 1550 R. Sherry Treat. Schemes & Tropes sig. E.iii These foresayd sixe kindes [of rhetorical description] Quintiliane dothe put vnder Prosopopeia. 1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalips xxxii. 199 We vnderstande these thinges to be spoken by a figure called Prosopopeia: that is by the fayning of a persone. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. B4^v His notable Prosopopeias, when he maketh you as it were, see God comming in his Maiestie. 1609 R. Bernard Faithfull Shepheard (new ed.) 67 Prosopopeia; the feigning of a person: when wee bring in dead men speaking, or our selues doe take their person vpon vs, or giue voice vnto senselesse things. 1647 J. Sprigge Anglia Rediviva Addr. sig. B4 Feigned speeches, Prosopopeia's, and Epistrophe's. 1699 Protestant Mercury* 28 Apr.–3 May No. 365. 2/2 Also Rules for making Colloquies, Essays, Fables, Prosopopaia's. 1759 Dict. Holy Bible II. 591/1 Then, by a beautidul prosopopoeia, he introduces the dead greeting his arrival among them. 1787 G. Gregory tr. R. Lowth Lect. Sacred Poetry Hebrews (1816) I. xiii. 280 Prosopopœia, or Personification. Of this figure there are two kinds: one, when action and character are attributed to fictitious, irrational, or even inanimate objects; the other, when a probable but fictitious speech is assigned to a real character. 1877 J. Morley Crit. Misc. 2nd Ser. 153 This is his one public literary Equivocation..it was resorted to..to give additional weight by means of a harmless prosopopoeia to an argument for the noblest of principles. 1922 L. H. Wild Lit. Guide Bible ii. iii. 47 Prosopopoeia, representing an actual or ideal person as present or speaking. 1995 D. Donoghue Walter Pater xviii. 201 She summons him to appear, as in the rhetorical figure of prosopopoeia. 2. a. A figure of speech by which an inanimate or abstract thing is represented as a person, or as having personal characteristics, esp. the power to think or speak; an instance of this; = personification n. 1.Formerly an aspect of sense 1: see quots. 1609, 1787. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > personification rhetoric?c1400 prosopopoeia1563 feigning of person1573 personification1728 personifying1728 personization1890 1563 R. Reynolds Foundacion of Rhetorike f. 50 Concerning Prosopopœia, it is..when to any one againste nature, speache is feigned to bee giuen. 1578 T. Tymme tr. J. Calvin Comm. Genesis 142 Clemency and gentleness..is attributed therevnto, by a figure called Prosopopoiia [Gk. κατα προσωποπιιας]. 1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) 276 The universall triumph and gladnesse as it were of all creatures (in an elegant Prosopopeia) is intimated. 1676 T. Shadwell Virtuoso i. 9 He makes Flowers, nay, Weeds, speak eloquently, and, by a noble kind of Prosopopeia, instruct Mankind. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. v. xxii. 314 Sentiments, and Vices, which by a marvellous Prosopopœia he converts into so many Ladies. 1758 T. Leland Hist. Reign Philip King of Macedon iv. 148 He makes use of a remarkably beautiful prosopopoeia, and imagines that the several powers of Greece thus call on the Athenians to account for their conduct. 1884 A. Lambert in 19th Cent. June 947 Prosopopœia has no place even in popular science. 1885 Mind 10 150 The Prosopopœia is written in the form of a contention before judges between the soul and the body. 1911 Mod. Lang. Notes 26 165/2 A ‘Prosopopoeia’, in which the Lover's Heart addresses the Breast of his second Lady. 1992 M. Blonsky Amer. Mythologies xviii. 451 He's completely changed the face of the city—there it is, the face, a prosopopeia, the trope that fools us that the thing we're struggling with is as stable as our own reassuring faces. †b. In extended use: a person or thing in which some quality or abstraction is embodied; the embodiment or epitome of something. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > [noun] > a physical representation of abstraction picture1553 imagery1596 prosopopoeia1825 embodiment1828 1825 B. Disraeli Let. 12 Nov. (1982) 49 A man, who might fairly be considered as a very prosopopeia of the Public Press. 1857 P. St. G. Cooke Scenes & Adventures in Army xxii. 156 The militia (that prosopopoeia of weakness, waste, and confusion) had been called out. 1867 G. A. Macfarren Six Lect. Harmony iv. 149 Everywhere at once..the prosopopœia of ubiquity. Derivatives prosopoˈpoeial adj. = prosopopoeic adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [adjective] > relating to prosopopoeia prosopopoeical1576 prosopopoeial1577 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iv. iii. sig. Ddd.iii/2 To this place now doe belong the Prosopopeiall speeches of God [L. Dei prosopopœiæ.]. 1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 278 I could have used,..Apostrophal and Prosopopœial diversions. 1991 Jrnl. Musicol. 9 190 The prosopopoeial evocation of the dead. 2001 Columbia Law Rev. 101 1879 The gift is prosopopoeial; in Part II, speaking from beyond the grave, it tells us that no amount of theoretical dirt will completely fill the holes or gaps in the legal stories about who gives what to whom. prosopoˈpoeic adj. of, relating to, or involving prosopopoeia. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adjective] > relating to personification prosopopoeic1883 personificative1890 1883 H. Cotterill Does Science Aid Faith? 57 A poetic and prosopopœic representation of the attribute of Divine wisdom. 1950 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 40 20 It is suitable to contrast the prosopopoeic virtuosity of Thucydides' other disciple, the Roman Sallust. 2000 Renaissance Q. 53 171 Lanyer also uses the prosopopoeic description of Cooke-ham to idealize the Countess's estate. † prosopopoeical adj. Obsolete = prosopopoeic adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [adjective] > relating to prosopopoeia prosopopoeical1576 prosopopoeial1577 1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. Argt. 192 He hath a Prosopopoical speach to his countrie. 1656 J. Smith Myst. Rhetorique Unvail'd 149 Thus in Joel 2. from 1. to the 12. ver. you have a most lively Rhetorical Prosopopoeical description of the terrible Army of the Babylonians. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1550
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