a form of speech, in which, for a proper name, is put the name of some dignity, office, profession, science, or trade; or when a proper name is put in the room of an appellative. Thus a king is called his majesty; a nobleman, his lordship. We say the philosopher instead of Aristotle; and the ora- Antonian for Cicero: Thus a man is called by the name of drians, his country, a German, an Italian; and a grave man is called a Cato, and a wife man a Solomon.