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Webster 1913 Edition
Agnomination
1.
A surname.
[R.]
Minsheu.
2.
Paronomasia; also, alliteration; annomination.
Webster 1828 Edition
Agnomination
AGNOMINA'TION
,Noun.
1.
An additional name, or title; a name added to another, as expressive of some act, achievement, &c.; a surname.2.
Allusion of one word to another by sound.Definition 2024
agnomination
agnomination
English
Alternative forms
- agnominatio, adnominatio, adnomination
Noun
agnomination (plural agnominations)
- (rhetoric) A paronomasia, or allusion of one word to another
- (rhetoric) An alliteration.
- (rhetoric) polyptoton.
- (rhetoric) Assigning to a proper name its literal or homophonic meaning.