— synecdochic /sin'ik dok"ik/ , synecdochical , adj. — synecdochically , adv.
/si nek"deuh kee/ , n. Rhet.
a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
[ 1350-1400; synekdoché, equiv. to syn- SYN- + ekdoché act of receiving from another, equiv. to ek- EC- + -doche, n. deriv. of déchesthai to receive ]