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synonymous, a.|sɪˈnɒnɪməs|
Also 7 synonimus, 7–9 synonimous.
[f. med.L. synōnymus, ad. Gr. συνώνυµος: see synonym and -ous.]
1. Having the character of a synonym; equivalent in meaning: said of words or phrases denoting the same thing or idea. Const. to, (now usually) with.
1610Donne Pseudo-martyr 389 So doth the law accept it [sc. the word ‘heresy’] in this oath, where it makes it equiualent, and Synonimous, to the wordes which are ioyned with it, which are Impious and Damnable. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. 601 That word Substance, being used..as Synonymous with Essence. 1690Reasons why Rector of P. took Oath of Allegiance 11 Lawmakers..muster up such a number of synonymous Terms, or such as amongst which we can see but small diversity. 1697Phil. Trans. XIX. 398 At one view you have the several Synonimous Names of all precedent Writers of Natural History. 1755Johnson Dict. Pref., Words are seldom exactly synonimous. 1813–21Bentham Ontology Wks. 1843 VIII. 201/1 Matter, at first sight, may naturally enough be considered as exactly synonymous to the word substance. 1816Singer Hist. Cards 56 The fact appears to be, that Pair and Pack were formerly synonimous. 1872Darwin Emotions vii. 194 To say that a person ‘is down in the mouth’ is synonymous with saying that he is out of spirits. 1884J. Tait Mind in Matter iii. 74 If life and mind are not synonymous, neither are brain and mind.
b. Of or relating to synonyms; synonymic. rare.
1805[see synonymize 4].
c. transf. Said of things of the same nature denoted by different names, i.e. by synonyms; thus = identical. (Cf. synonym 3, synonymity b.)
1789Burney Hist. Mus. III. vii. 439 Two of the five short keys are divided in the middle and communicate to two different sets of pipes so that G{sharp} and A♭, are not synonimous sounds.
2. In extended sense, said of words or phrases which denote things that imply one another: cf. synonym 2.
1659T. Pecke Parnassi Puerp. 152 Can it be thus, That Tents, and Studies are Synonimous? 1706Estcourt Fair Example i. i, Cuckold and Husband are as Synonimous Terms, as Rogue and Attorney. 1769Junius Lett. xv. (1788) 89 Good-faith and folly have so long been received as synonimous terms, that [etc.]. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. (1778) I. iv. 254 Over all the continent of North America a north-westerly wind and excessive cold are synonymous terms. 1829Carlyle Misc. (1857) II. 1 Were will in human undertakings synonymous with faculty. 1855Prescott Philip II, I. iii. i. 317 The name of soldier was synonymous with that of marauder. 1873G. S. Baden-Powell New Homes 431 With many,..going out to Australia is believed to be synonymous with making a fortune.
3. loosely. Having the same name; denoted by the same word: = homonymous 2.
1734[see heteronymous 1]. 1796Kirwan in Trans. R. Irish Acad. VI. 187 If a magnet be cut in two, in a direction parallel to the axis, the parts before conjoined will now repel each other, because they still retain two synonimous poles. 1876Besant & Rice Gold. Butterfly xiii, Poor old Abraham Dyson, now lying in a synonymous bosom.
¶b. That may be described in the same terms; of the same description; similar. Obs.
1690D'Urfey Collin's Walk Lond. i. 8 'Tis needless to expose His Stockins, or describe, or Shooes, Or Legs, or Feet, since 't may be guessed They were Synonimous to th' rest. 1706De Foe Jure Div. vii. 142 The Fall of Man having made him a Slave to the Devil, Man grew something Diabolical himself, and strove to practice a synonimous Power over his fellow Creatures.
Hence syˈnonymously adv., by or as a synonym, with the same meaning; syˈnonymousness.
1659Pearson Creed i. 100 It [sc. creation] is often used synonymously with words which signifie any kind of production or formation. 1671F. Phillips Reg. Necess. 415 The Earls or Counts of England..before the Norman Conquest, were as our learned Selden observed, sometimes Synonimously entituled Dux or Dukes. 1688Vox Cleri Pro Rege 47 The King had Sovereign or absolute Power (for our late Prerogative Divines have used both Epiethites Synonimously). 1839G. Roberts Dict. Geol., Schist,..often used synonymously with slate. 1863Max Müller Sci. Lang. Ser. ii. x. (1868) 447 The synonymousness of Sky and God in the Aryan language. |