About The Word Synecdochical
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Synecdochical
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What's The Definition Of Synecdochical?
[adj] 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"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Synecdochical: figurative | nonliteral | synecdochic Related Terms | Find terms related to Synecdochical: See Also | Synecdochical In Webster's Dictionary \Syn`ec*doch"ic*al\, a.
Expressed by synecdoche; implying a synecdoche.
Isis is used for Themesis by a synecdochical kind of
speech, or by a poetical liberty, in using one for
another. --Drayton.
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