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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An additional name or title; a name added to another, as expressive of some act, achievement, etc.; a surname.
  2. n. Resemblance in sound between one word and another, especially by alliteration; also, the practice of using in close proximity to one another words which resemble each other in sound (see annomination): as, “Scott of Scotstarvet's Staggering State of Scots Statesmen.”

Wiktionary

  1. n. rhetoric A paronomasia, or allusion of one word to another
  2. n. rhetoric An alliteration.
  3. n. rhetoric polyptoton.
  4. n. rhetoric Assigning to a proper name its literal or homophonic meaning.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. rare A surname.
  2. n. Paronomasia; also, alliteration; annomination.

Etymologies

  1. From Latin agnominatio. (Wiktionary)

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  • jmjarmstrong JM added an agnomination avoiding any abominable allusions. Feb 14, 2010

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