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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
synecdochical
    adj 1: 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]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]

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