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  • So neuerthelesse as it may be vnderstood, it is by the figure _metonymia_, or misnamer.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • So neuerthelesse as it may be vnderstood, it is by the figure metonymia, or misnamer.

    The Arte of English Poesie 1569

  • _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

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

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