单词 | cryptonymous |
释义 | cryptonymousadj. Relating to or characterized by a pseudonym or code name; bearing or assuming such a name; pseudonymous. Cf. cryptonym n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > [adjective] > assuming a fictitious name pseudonymous1706 cryptonymous1814 pseudonymic1837 1814 T. H. Horne Introd. to Study Bibliogr. I. ii. i. 281 Cryptonymous; those whose authors' names are concealed in some anagram or the like. 1834 W. T. Lowndes Bibliographer's Man. Eng. Lit. III. 1195/2 A cryptonymous book—Telliamed being the anagram of M. de Maillet. 1880 A. C. Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. Dec. 719 The cryptonymous railer for his bread. 1982 Notes & Queries Oct. 420/1 R. B.'s allusions to persons in Greenes Funeralls are generally cryptonymous. 1990 Film Comment Jan. 36/3 No column of Celia Brady—Spy magazine's cryptonymous Zola—is complete without a reference..to the man's power. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1814 |
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