{"topic":"antonomasi-a","count":1,"articles":[{"id":"britannica-11-antonomasi-a","work_id":"britannica-11","title":"Antonomasi A","normalized_title":"antonomasi-a","slug":"antonomasi-a","aliases":[],"subtitle":"Internet Archive OCR import","body_text":"ANTONOMASI A, in rhetoric, the Greek term for a substitution of any epithet or phrase for a proper name; as \" Pelides,\" or \" the son of Peleus,\" for Achilles; \" the Stagirite \" for Aristotle; \" the author of Paradise Lost \" for Milton; \" the little corporal \" for Napoleon I. ; \" Macedonia's madman \" for Alexander the Great, &c. &c. The opposite substitution of a proper name for some generic term is also sometimes called antonomasia; as \" a Cicero \" for an orator.","body_html":"<p>ANTONOMASI A, in rhetoric, the Greek term for a substitution of any epithet or phrase for a proper name; as &quot; Pelides,&quot; or &quot; the son of Peleus,&quot; for Achilles; &quot; the Stagirite &quot; for Aristotle; &quot; the author of Paradise Lost &quot; for Milton; &quot; the little corporal &quot; for Napoleon I. ; &quot; Macedonia&#x27;s madman &quot; for Alexander the Great, &amp;c. &amp;c. The opposite substitution of a proper name for some generic term is also sometimes called antonomasia; as &quot; a Cicero &quot; for an orator.</p>","volume_id":"britannica-11-v2","page_range_label":"Vol. 2, pp. 151-151","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri02chisrich/page/n170/mode/1up","text_source_url":"https://archive.org/download/encyclopaediabri02chisrich/encyclopaediabri02chisrich_djvu.txt","scan_source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri02chisrich","quality_status":"ocr-imported-page-aligned","parser_version":"ia-djvu-xml-v1","page_refs":[{"page_number":"151","label":"p. 151","image_url":"/source-assets/scans/britannica-11/encyclopaediabri02chisrich/encyclopaediabri02chisrich_0171.jpg","source_image_url":"https://archive.org/download/encyclopaediabri02chisrich/encyclopaediabri02chisrich_jp2.zip/encyclopaediabri02chisrich_jp2%2Fencyclopaediabri02chisrich_0171.jp2&ext=jpg","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri02chisrich/page/n170/mode/1up"}],"work":{"id":"britannica-11","slug":"britannica-11","title":"Encyclopaedia Britannica","short_title":"Britannica 11th","edition":"11th edition","publisher":"Cambridge University Press","publication_start_year":1910,"publication_end_year":1911,"language":"English","country":"United Kingdom / United States","copyright_status_note":"First published before 1931; treated as public domain in the United States. Verify jurisdiction before redistribution outside the U.S.","source_quality":"mixed-clean-and-ocr","text_source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica","scan_source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri","volumes":[{"id":"britannica-11-v1","volume_number":"1","title":"A to Androphagi","year":1910,"source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri01chisrich","text_source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica","scan_source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri01chisrich","page_count":1084},{"id":"britannica-11-v2","volume_number":"2","title":"Andros to Austria","year":1910,"source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri02chisrich","text_source_url":"https://archive.org/download/encyclopaediabri02chisrich/encyclopaediabri02chisrich_djvu.txt","scan_source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri02chisrich","page_count":null},{"id":"britannica-11-v9","volume_number":"9","title":"Edwardes to Evangelical Association","year":1910,"source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabrit09chisrich","text_source_url":"https://archive.org/download/encyclopaediabrit09chisrich/encyclopaediabrit09chisrich_djvu.txt","scan_source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabrit09chisrich","page_count":null},{"id":"britannica-11-v26","volume_number":"26","title":"Submarine Mines to Tom-Tom","year":1911,"source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri26chisrich","text_source_url":"https://archive.org/download/encyclopaediabri26chisrich/encyclopaediabri26chisrich_djvu.txt","scan_source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri26chisrich","page_count":null},{"id":"britannica-11-v27","volume_number":"27","title":"Tonality to Vesuvius","year":1911,"source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri27chisrich","text_source_url":"https://ia903207.us.archive.org/15/items/encyclopaediabri27chisrich/encyclopaediabri27chisrich_djvu.txt","scan_source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri27chisrich","page_count":null}]}}]}