ADJECTIVE
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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
How To Use synecdochical In A Sentence
- The first mode is synecdochical, the second common, the third metonymical; I add that the third might properly be called catachrestic if we attend to the just distinction of these members. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3