单词 | mutato nomine |
释义 | mutato nominephr. Now rare. With the name or names being changed (used with reference to an observation that remains applicable in a different context if the name of the person, place, etc., concerned is altered accordingly). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [adverb] > by another name mutato nomine1608 1608 J. Wycliffe Two Short Treat. Ep. Ded. sig. ¶3v For what is spoken of the one, mutato nomine may wel be vnderstood of the other. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Lincs. 153 Which Proverb, Mutato Nomine, is used in other Counties. 1828 J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. 9 146 Nobody would pretend that a man unacquainted with the properties of simple substances would be perfectly capable of performing such an analysis, or that the knowledge of the ultimate elements of bodies was of no service to the chemist. The same observations apply, mutato nomine, to the logician, and the syllogism. 1840 J. B. Fraser Trav. Koordistan II. vi. 152 The words of Burns, mutato nomine, describe their country exactly. 1860 W. M. Thackeray in Cornhill Mag. May 632 A score of such queer names and titles I have smiled at in America. And, mutato nomine? 1894 Cent. Mag. Oct. 837 It is all the same story, mutato nomine. 1988 Guardian 16 May 38/3 The opposition would be well advised to draw lessons from the affair rather than gloat at Government discomfiture; mutato nomine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < phr.1608 |
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