'Synecdochical' definitions:
Definition of 'synecdochical'
From: WordNet
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" [syn: synecdochic, synecdochical]
Definition of 'Synecdochical'
From: GCIDE
- Synecdochical \Syn`ec*doch"ic*al\, a. Expressed by synecdoche; implying a synecdoche. [1913 Webster]
- Isis is used for Themesis by a synecdochical kind of speech, or by a poetical liberty, in using one for another. --Drayton. [1913 Webster]