单词 | synonymy |
释义 | synonymyn. a. = synonym n. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > synonymy > [noun] > synonym synonym?a1475 synonymy1609 equivalent1651 synonymal1662 duplicate1839 1609 R. Bernard Faithfull Shepheard (new ed.) 27 One word signifying many things, Homonymies: many words signifying againe one thing, Synonymies. 1659 G. Torriano Florio's Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese Sinónimo, a Sinonimie. 1730 M. Wright Introd. Law Tenures (new ed.) 179 Feud, Fee, and Tenure, are Synonimies, and import but one and the same Policy. 1799 J. Scott in tr. Ināyat Allāh Bahar-Danush I. Pref. p. iii The synonymies and compound epithets so abundant in eastern description. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > [noun] > namesake one with same name synonymy1612 namesakea1635 cognominal1646 name-daughter1712 name-son1712 name-child1789 synonym1837 homonym1851 1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion ii. Illustr. 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. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > parallelism > of synonyms apposition1561 interpreter1589 synonymy1656 the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > synonymy > [noun] > synonym > use of synonymy1880 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 179 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. 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. O3, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) Synonymia, when we bring forth many words together of one signification, or sounding all to one purpose.] 1656 J. Smith Myst. Rhetorique Unvail'd 159 A Synonymie is a commodious heaping together of divers words of one signification. 1880 Massie 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > synonymy > [noun] > synonym > collectively synonymy1683 1683 Weekly Memorials for Ingenious (Faithorne & Kersey) 15 Jan. 375 The Synonomie or several Names to the same sense. 1794 Mrs. Piozzi (title) British Synonymy; or, an attempt at regulating the choice of words in familiar conversation. 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. iii. 200 The distinctions in Latin syntax, inflexion, and synonymy. 1908 Expositor Jan. 73 The best work on New Testament synonymy. b. in natural history: see synonym n. 1b. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > nomenclature or terminology > [noun] > other spec. synonymy1782 trinomialism1884 protologue1905 1782 Philos. Trans. 1781 (Royal Soc.) 71 438 Artedi, in his account of this species, has adopted the synonymy of Schonevelde, who describes a fish under the name of Ophidion imberbe flavum. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. Introd. 6 A Synonymy, or exact list of the names that every plant bore in all the writers which preceded them. 1854 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca ii. 162 The synonymy of the genus would fill several pages. 1877 H. Saunders in Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878) 156 The comparative simplicity of the synonymy of the Sterninæ. 1887 W. Phillips Man. 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > synonymy > [noun] synonymy1794 synonymousness1863 synonymity1880 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > [noun] > equivalence of meaning synonymy1794 1794 H. L. Piozzi Brit. Synonymy I. 182 Yet would such a transposition be no proof of their synonymy. 1815 tr. V. J. E. de Jouy Paris Chit-chat II. 102 A..philologer established the synonimy of the words repress and prevent. 1857 H. H. Breen Blemishes Mod. Eng. Lit. 86 Soane..will have it that Spenser intended the particle ‘or’ to express synonymy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1609 |
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