[variant of AGNOMINATION; cf. mod.Fr. annomination.]
1. Paronomasia.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Annomination, the same with what is otherwise called paronomasia.
1858. Marsh, Eng. Lang., xxv. 566. Annomination consists in opposing to each other … words of similar sound but different signification.
† 2. Alliteration. Obs.
1775. Tyrwhitt, Ess. Chaucer, III. § 1, note. Giraldus Cambrensis speaks of Annomination, the which he describes to be what we call Alliteration.
