单词 | synecdochical |
释义 | synecdochicaladj. a. Grammar and Rhetoric. = synecdochic adj. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adjective] > synecdochic synecdochical1597 synecdochic1787 1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. Notes f. 60 v Isis heere is vsed for Thamesis by a Senecdochicall [1608 synecdochicall] kinde of speech. 1619 J. Sempill Sacrilege Sacredly Handled 21 Tremellius..noteth this speech to be both Synecdochicall, in putting Sacrifices for all sorts of Offrings..and Metonymicall. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. v. 134 A cup being taken here by a Synecdochicall metonymie for all plentifull Provisions. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi vii. i. 5/2 Synecdoctrical [sic] Pay, being a certain Figure in our avaritious..Rhetoric, by which there passes, pars pro Toto. 1726 R. Whatley Let. to Right Honourable Lord-Chief-Justice King (ed. 2) 11 They [sc. two mottoes] are both very good..but labour both under the same Imperfection, of containing but a very Synecdochical Allusion to the Greatness of their Lordships respective Characters. 1876 J. Martin tr. C. F. Keil Comm. Ezek. xl. 38–47 A synecdochical designation applied to every kind of animal sacrifice. 1908 Notes & Queries 22 Feb. 157/1 ‘Shirt’ is synecdochical for man, ‘shift’ for woman. 2003 M. R. Bennett & P. M. S. Hacker Philos. Found. Neuroscience iii. ix. 246 If neuroscientists speak of the brain and its parts as being conscious, what they say makes sense only in so far as this is a synecdochical or metonymical use of words. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [adjective] > involving synecdochism synecdochical1887 synecdochic1897 1887 O. T. Mason in Science 7 Jan. 17/2 Synechdochical Magic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1597 |
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