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synecdochical
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective synecdochical has 1 sense
- synecdochical(s = adj.all) synecdochic - using the name of a part for that of the whole or the whole for the part; or the special for the general or the general for the special; or the material for the thing made of it; "to use `hand' for `worker' or `ten sail' for `ten ships' or `steel' for `sword' is to use a synecdochic figure of speech" Derived form noun synecdoche1
CIDE DICTIONARY
synecdochical, a.
Expressed by synecdoche; implying a synecdoche. [1913 Webster]
"Isis is used for Themesis by a synecdochical kind of speech, or by a poetical liberty, in using one for another."
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