 | David Clark (headmaster.) - 1871 - 84 pages
...cheers bat not inebriates. It is the production of an elegant pen. Synechdoche is a figure in which the whole is put for a part, or a part for the whole, as — He has gained the esteem of the world. He employs many hands. Personification is that figure... | |
 | Noah Webster, William Greenleaf Webster - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1871 - 364 pages
...invested with difliicut powers in dillt'rent plates. Syn-6-eh'do-ehe, и. A figure of rhetoric by which the whole is put for a part, or a part for the whole. Syn'od, «. An ecclesiastical council ; a convention. Syn-od'i«, ( a. Relating to Syn-od/ic-al, )... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1874 - 420 pages
...of speech, wherein something more or something less is substituted for the precise object meant; as when the whole is put for a part, or a part for the...; a genus for a species, or a species for a genus; the singular for the plural, or the plural for the singular, &c. 1. The whole for a part. " The world... | |
 | John Seely Hart - English language - 1874 - 258 pages
...He assumes the sceptre,-" that is, " He assumes the sovereignty." A Synecdoche is a figure by which the whole is put for a part, or a part for the whole, a definite for an indefinite number, etc. ; as, " Man returns to the dust," meaning only his body, "... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1874 - 200 pages
...[officer. SYNlilG, *. A kind of chief magistrate: a mumciiMl BYNEC'DOCHE, *. In Rhetoric, a figure by which the whole is put for a part, or a part for the whole. BYN'OD, *. A council ; an ecclesiastical assembly. SYNOD'IC, SYNOD'ICAL, a. Relating to or i>erformed... | |
 | Christopher Irving - 1876 - 128 pages
...This roof protects me (that is, this house). Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears (listen). When the whole is put for a part, or a part for the whole, a definite number for an indefinite, &c., this figure is often called Sy-n5c-do-che. A Climax or Gradation,... | |
 | Thomas Edie Hill - Business - 1876 - 360 pages
...of speech wherein something more or something less is substituted for the precise object meant, as when the whole is put for a part, or a part for the whole ; the singular for the plural or the plural for the singular. EXAMPLES — "Ills htarl is prey,"—... | |
 | Thomas Edmondson - English language - 1876 - 200 pages
...of the ligaments. Syn'dromu, s. — concurrent action. Synec'doche, s.— in Rhet. a figure by which the whole is put for a part, or a part for the whole. Syne'chia, s. — a disease of the eye. Synecphone'sis, s. — synoeresis. Syn'epy, J. — interjunction... | |
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When the whole is put for a part, or a part for the whole; a genus for a species, or a species for a genus ; in general, when any thing less, or any thing more, is put for the precise object meant; the figure is then called a Synecdoche or Comprehension.... 
