Antonomastically

However, it is attributed by appropriation to the Holy Ghost. it is not one of those graces which have for their immediate and essential object the sanctification of the man who received them, but one of those called antonomastically charismata, or gratis datae, because they are given primarily for the good of thers. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Reply Obj. 2: What is common to all the sacraments is attributed antonomastically to this one on account of its excellence. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

And because comeliness is ascribed to chastity antonomastically, it follows that surpassing beauty is ascribed to chastity. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

_I answer that, _ It is customary in human speech to employ a common term in a restricted sense in order to designate the principal things to which that common term is applicable: thus the word "city" is used antonomastically* to designate Rome. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

Wherefore the unlawful intercourse between such persons is called "incest" antonomastically. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

On the other hand, if we take temperance antonomastically, as withholding the appetite from those things which are most seductive to man, it is a special virtue, for thus it has, like fortitude, a special matter. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

Hence these passions are not of such importance that temperance can be referred to them antonomastically. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

Wherefore those are called religious antonomastically, who give themselves up entirely to the divine service, as offering a holocaust to God. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

_I answer that, _ As stated above (Q. 141, A. 2) that which is applicable to many things in common is ascribed antonomastically to that to which it is applicable by way of excellence. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

Wherefore the concupiscence of these pleasures stands in very great need of being chastised: and consequently chastity is applied antonomastically to such like concupiscences, even as fortitude is about those matters wherein we stand in the greatest need of strength of mind. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

For this reason timidity is said to be antonomastically* opposed to fortitude. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

Schoolman Thomas Aquinas, but consciously delights (cf.Enarr. in Ps. xcvi, n. 19) in antonomastically applying to the genus the designation which belongs only to the highest species. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)