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Definition of Synecdochic
1. Adjective. 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"
Similar to: Figurative, Nonliteral
Derivative terms: Synecdoche, Synecdoche
Definition of Synecdochic
1. Adjective. using an inclusive term for something included, or vice versa; using something spoken of as the whole (hand for laborer) or vice-versa (the court for the judge). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Synecdochic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Synecdochic
Literary usage of Synecdochic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1818)
"Buxtorf says, Costa, synecdochic£ latus, thence the side or chamber of a building,
the beam of a building, which is, as it were, its rib; ..."
2. The Evolution of Literature by Alastair St. Clair Mackenzie (1911)
"Thus arises synecdochic or sympathetic magic. Telepathy is now possible. If you
possess any object that ever belonged to a person, you have him in your ..."
3. The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by Walter Scott (1835)
"Diodorus Siculus (lib. vp 354) remarks the cloudy speech and intellect, synecdochic
phrase, and hyperbolical pride ..."
4. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Scott (1841)
"354) remarks the cloudy speech and intellect, synecdochic phrase, and hyperbolical
pride of the old Celts. Their idiotic credulity was derided by the Roman ..."
5. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Scott (1841)
"354) remarks the cloudy speech and intellect, synecdochic phrase, and hyperbolical
pride of the old Celts. ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1818)
"Buxtorf says, Costa, synecdochic£ latus, thence the side or chamber of a building,
the beam of a building, which is, as it were, its rib; ..."
7. The Evolution of Literature by Alastair St. Clair Mackenzie (1911)
"Thus arises synecdochic or sympathetic magic. Telepathy is now possible. If you
possess any object that ever belonged to a person, you have him in your ..."
8. The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by Walter Scott (1835)
"Diodorus Siculus (lib. vp 354) remarks the cloudy speech and intellect, synecdochic
phrase, and hyperbolical pride ..."
9. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Scott (1841)
"354) remarks the cloudy speech and intellect, synecdochic phrase, and hyperbolical
pride of the old Celts. Their idiotic credulity was derided by the Roman ..."
10. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Scott (1841)
"354) remarks the cloudy speech and intellect, synecdochic phrase, and hyperbolical
pride of the old Celts. ..."
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