Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AU-TO-NOM'A-SY
AU-TO-NOM'A-SY, n. [Gr. αυτος, and ονομα, a name.]
In rhetoric, a word of common or general signification, used for the name of a particular thing; as, the man has gone to the city, instead of New York.
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