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[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" |
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SYNECDOCHICAL is a 13 letter word that starts with S. |
| | Synonyms: | | figurative, nonliteral, synecdochic |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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