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‖ prosopopœia|prɒsəʊpəʊˈpiː(ɪ)ə|
Also 6 -oiia, 6–9 -eia, (erron. 6–8 -œa, 7 -oia).
[L. (Quintil.), a. Gr. προσωποποιία personification, representation in human form or with human attributes, f. πρόσωπον face, person + ποιεῖν to make.]
1. A rhetorical figure by which an imaginary or absent person is represented as speaking or acting; the introduction of a pretended speaker.
1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 91 We vnderstand these things to be spoken by a figure called Prosopopeia: that is, by the fayning of a person. 1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 24 His notable Prosopopeias, when he maketh you as it were, see God comming in his Maiestie. 1609R. Barnard Faithf. Sheph. 67 Prosopopeia; the feigning of a person: when wee bring in dead men speaking, or our selues doe take their person vpon vs, or giue voice vnto senselesse things. 1787Gregory tr. Lowth's Lect. (1816) I. xiii. 280 Prosopopœia, or Personification. Of this figure there are two kinds: one, when action and character are attributed to fictitious, irrational, or even inanimate objects; the other, when a probable but fictitious speech is assigned to a real character. 1877Morley Crit. Misc. Ser. ii. 153 This is his one public literary Equivocation..it was resorted to..to give additional weight by means of a harmless prosopopoeia to an argument for the noblest of principles.
2. A rhetorical figure by which an inanimate or abstract thing is represented as a person, or with personal characteristics: = personification 1. (Formerly included in prec. sense: see quots. 1609, 1787 there.)
1578Timme Caluine on Gen. 142 Clemency and gentleness..is attributed thereto, by a figure called Prosopopoiia. 1649Roberts Clavis Bibl. 276 The universall triumph and gladnesse as it were of all creatures (in an elegant Prosopopeia) is intimated. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. v. §22 Sentiments, and vices, which by a marvellous prosopopœia he converts into so many ladies. 1884A. Lambert in 19th Cent. June 947 Prosopopœia has no place even in popular science.
b. transf. Applied to a person or thing in which some quality or abstraction is as it were embodied; an impersonation, embodiment (of something).
1826Disraeli Viv. Grey i. x, Don't start..and look the very Prosopopeia of Political Economy! 1867Macfarren Harmony iv. (1876) 152 Everywhere at once..the prosopopœia of ubiquity.
Hence prosopoˈpœial, prosopoˈpœic, -ical adjs., pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving prosopopœia.
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 622 To this place now doo belong the *Prosopopeiall speeches of God. 1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 292, I could have used..apostrophal and prosopopœial diversions.
1883Cotterill Does Science Aid Faith? (1886) 57 A poetic and *prosopopœic representation of the attribute of Divine wisdom.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 192 He hath a *Prosopopoical speach to his countrie. |