surnamern.
Puttenham's englishing of antonomasia n.Apparently an isolated use.
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1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xvi. 151 Not metonimia, but antonomasia, or the Surnamer, (not the misnamer, which might extend to any other thing aswell as to a person) as he that would say: not king Philip of Spaine, but the Westerne king.
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n.1589- put a person's pot on
- put a pistol at a person's head
- put a pistol at head
- put a pistol to a person's head
- put a pistol to head
- put a pistol to one's head
- put a positive etc spin on
- put a positive negative spin on
- put a positive spin on
- put a premium on
- put a quart into a pint pot
- put a rod under a person's girdle
- put a roughie over
- put a scorn on, upon
- put a scotch on
- put a scotch on a person's wheel
- put a scotch under a person's wheel
- put a sham upon
- put a sock in it
- put a spoke in one's wheel
- put a stake in prison
- put a stop to
- put a stopper on
- put a thing on ice
- put a thing to silence