nonce-wd. [f. SURNAME v. + -ER1.] Puttenham’s englishing of ANTONOMASIA.
1589. Puttenham, Engl. Poesie, III. xvii. (Arb.), 192. Not metonimia, but antonomasia, or the Surnamer, (not the misnamer, which might extend to any other thing aswell as to a person) as he that would say: not king Philip of Spaine, but the Westerne king.
