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ANtonomasia 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, nominis unius pro alio positio, A putting of one name for a∣nother, or the exchanging or a name; derived from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, pro, for, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, [onomazo] no∣mino, to name:
Antonomasia is a form of speech, whereby the oratour or speaker, for a proper name put∣teth another, and some name of dignity, office, profession, science, or trade.
It is a kinde of a Metonymie and Synecdoche Generis, and is when another name, a nickname or common name is put instead of the proper name, or when a word being put without a name, supplies the place of the name.
Antonomasia imponit cognomen, ut; a Irus; Impius; b Aeacides; c Poenus; d Cytherea; e Poeta.
a Irus being a poor Messenger of Penelopes wo∣ers, is here put for any poor man.
Impius, wicked, the wicked fellow is put for any man notoriously wicked.
b Achilles, the Nephew of Aeacus.
c Carthaginian for Hannibal who was the e∣minent man of Carthage.
d Any remarkable person of Cythera, but here it signifies Venus, who was carried to Cythera in a cockle-shell, and was the goddesse of that place.
e Poeta the Poet; for Virgil or Homer.
Arma virum{que} cano; — ubi intelligitur Aeneas.
This Rhetorical Exornation is used five waies, viz.
1. Hereby the Oratour speaking to high dignities, boweth (as it were) the knee of his speech, and lifts up the eye of his phrase to the bright beams of earthly glory, thereby de∣claring his reverence and their dignity: thus when he speaks to a King or a Prince, he saith
your Majesty, your Highnesse: to a Nobleman your Lordship, your Honour.
2. In stead of name or title, he useth a de∣cent and due Epithet, thus, Honourable Judge, Honoured Sir.
3. The Author by the name of his profession or science, as when we say, the Philosopher for Aristotle: The Roman Orator for Cicero: The Psalmograph for David.
4. A man by the name of his Countrey: as, the Persian the Germane, the Britain.
5. When we give to one man the name of another, for the affinities sake of their manners or conditions. In praise thus, As when we call a grave man a Cato, a just dealer an A••istides, a wise man a Solomon. In dispraise, To call an envious detractor a Zoilus, a captious repre∣hender a Momus, a tyrant a Nero, a voluptuous liver an Epicure.
Prov. 18.10. The name of the Lord is a strong Tower, &c.
Joel 2.11. He is strong that executes his word.
Gen. 21.33 The everlasting God, where the common attributes, strong and everlasting are put for Jehovah, the more proper name of God.
So in Mat. 21.3. Joh. 11, 3, 12. Christ is called Lo••d: and in Joh. 11.28. Master: and in Mat 8.20. & 9.6. The son of man: in Gen. 48.16: The Angel: in Exod. 3.2 The Angel of the Lord: and in Isai. 63.9. the Angel of the Lords presence: and Euphrates is in Gen. 31.21.
called the River: and Christ in Dan. 11.22. is called the Prince oft he Covenant. and in Gen. 3.15. the seed of the woman: and in Heb. 12.24. the Mediator of the New Covenant.
Thus Christ also calls his Church, his Sister, his Love, and his Dove; and the Church in like manner, him her Beloved.
Farnaby.