euonym and caconym

[Stephen Goranson]

In research about ancient names for those accused of (what was eventually called) heresy or minut, I've seen cacophemism (and Caracturnamen).
Here's cacophemism from 1862;

http://books.google.com/books?id=_Do_AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA79&dq=cacophemism&hl=en&sa=X&ei=L5qCUdCnJILK9gSamYGgAQ&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=cacophemism&f=false

If anyone is interested I could say a little more about that tomorrow.

stephen goranson
www.duke.edu/~goranson

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