Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
Division (II) Communication of Ideas
Section I. Nature of Ideas Communicated

521. Metaphor.

   NOUN:FIGURE OF SPEECH; façon de parler [F.], way of speaking, colloquialism.
  phrase [See Phrase]; figure, trope, metaphor, tralatition, metonymy, enallage, catachresis, synecdoche, antonomasia; satire, irony, figurativeness &c. adj.; image, imagery, metathesis, metalepsis, type, anagoge, simile.
  PERSONIFICATION, prosopopœia, allegory, allegorization, apologue, parable, fable.
  INFERENCE, implication, deduction, allusion, adumbration; euphemism, euphuism, application.
   VERB:EMPLOY METAPHOR &c. n.; personify, allegorize, fable, adumbrate, shadow forth, apply, allude to.
   ADJECTIVE:METAPHORICAL, tropical, tralatitious, figurative, catachrestic or catachrestical, antonomastic or antonomastical, typical, parabolic or parabolical, allegoric or allegorical, allusive, referential, anagogic or anagogical; euphuistic or euphuistical, euphemistic or euphemistical, ironic, ironical; colloquial.
   ADVERB:AS IT WERE; so to -speak, – say, – express oneself; in a manner of speaking [colloq.].
   QUOTATION:Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur.—Horace