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synonymy|sɪˈnɒnɪmɪ|
Also 6–9 synonimy, 7–9 synonomy.
[ad. late L. synōnymia, a. Gr. συνωνυµία, f. συνώνυµος synonym. Cf. F. synonymie, etc.]
†1. = synonym 1. Obs.
1609R. Barnerd Faithf. Sheph. 27 One word signifying many things, Homonymies: many words signifying againe one thing, Synonymies. 1659Torriano, Sinónimo, a Sinonimie. 1730M. Wright Introd. Law Tenures 179 Feud, Fee, and Tenure, are Synonimies, and import but one and the same Policy. 1799J. Scott Bahar-Danush Pref. p. iii, The synonymies and compound epithets so abundant in eastern description.
†b. loosely. A thing of the same name: = homonym 2. Obs.
1612Selden Illustr. Drayton's Poly-olb. ii. 34 We hauing three riuers of note synonymies with her [sc. Isis].
2. The use of synonyms or of words as synonyms; spec. a rhetorical figure by which synonyms are used for the sake of amplification.
[1586A. Day Engl. Secretorie ii. (1625) 91 Synonimia, when we bring forth many words together of one signification, or sounding to one purpose. 1589Puttenham Engl. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.) 223 When so euer we multiply our speech by many words or clauses of one sence, the Greekes call it Sinonimia, as who would say, like or consenting names.] 1657J. Smith Myst. Rhet. 159 A Synonymie is a commodious heaping together of divers words of one signification. 1880Massie in Expositor XI. 147 Ahaz..makes υἰὸς equivalent to δοῦλος... Such sycophantic synonymy St. Paul absolutely repudiates.
3. The subject or study of synonyms; synonyms collectively, a set of synonyms.
a. in grammar.
1683Weekly Memorials 15 Jan. 375 The Synonomie or several Names to the same sense. 1794Mrs. Piozzi (title) British Synonymy; or, an attempt at regulating the choice of words in familiar conversation. 1837Hallam Lit. Eur. i. iii. §8 The distinctions in Latin syntax, inflexion, and synonymy. 1908Expositor Jan. 73 The best work on New Testament synonymy.
b. in natural history: see synonym 1 b.
1781Phil. Trans. LXXI. 438 Artedi, in his account of this species, has adopted the synonymy of Schonevelde, who describes a fish under the name of Ophidion imberbe flavum. 1785Martyn Lett. Bot. Introd. (1794) 6 A Synonymy, or exact list of the names that every plant bore in all the writers which preceded them. 1854Woodward Mollusca ii. 162 The synonymy of the genus would fill several pages. 1877H. Saunders in Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878) 156 The comparative simplicity of the synonymy of the Sterninæ. 1887W. Phillips Brit. Discomycetes 241 Dr. Cooke has pointed out the fact that two different species have been included by authors under this name... The synonymy is rendered somewhat uncertain by this fact.
4. The quality or fact of being synonymous; identity of meaning; synonymousness.
1794Mrs. Piozzi Synon. I. 182 Yet would such a transposition be no proof of their synonymy. 1815Paris Chit-chat (1816) II. 102 A..philologer established the synonimy of the words repress and prevent. 1857H. H. Breen Mod. Eng. Lit. 86 Soane..will have it that Spenser intended the particle ‘or’ to express synonymy. |