 | H. Curzon - 1712 - 596 lapas
...exprefsour felvesby a Word which is of the like Signification with what we mean. 4 . Synecdoche by which a Part is put for the Whole, or the Whole for a Part. figure. A Figure is a kind of Elocution, by which the Form of a Speech is changed from its Right and... | |
 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - 1839 - 698 lapas
...the distinctness of the related ideas. But how can a child understand those figures of speech, where a part is put for the whole, or the whole for a part, when he knows nothing either of whole or part ; — where sensible objects are put for intelligible,... | |
 | William Trollope - 1842 - 266 lapas
...occurs in Mutt. xvil. 20, lav tj£x-Tt TtffTiv ¿s xoxxov ffivatrt&s. III. Synecdoche. By this figure a part is put for the whole, or the whole for a part; and a genus for a species, or a species for a genus. Thus in Acts ii. 41, xxvii. 37, -^vx/n indicates... | |
 | John Turner (of Brighton.) - 1843 - 116 lapas
...night. — MILTON. 14. SYNECDOCHE (from the Greek word, sunekdoche, a comprehension) is a figure by which a part is put for the whole, or the whole for a part ; as, The window is broken ; »'. e., a pane of glass. Abbreviations and Terms in general use, with... | |
 | Freeborn Garretson Hibbard - 1851 - 546 lapas
...by Christ, paternal and kingly authority. These figures of speech, so common in Scripture style, by which a part is put for the whole, or the whole for a part—the subject for the predicate, or the predicate for the subject—will be readily comprehended... | |
 | 1851 - 716 lapas
...are of the same species. Nor will the synecdoche work such a change of meaning; as in that figure, a part is put for the whole, or the whole for a part; but Jacob himself is not in these instances put for his descendants, nor his descendants put for him.... | |
 | Hyde Clarke - 1853 - 180 lapas
...Shakspeare's works;" "Blue water " for " The sea." " Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke." When a part is put for the whole, or the whole for a part, this is more especially called Syneedoche or Comprehension, as when we speak of " the waves" for "the... | |
 | Frederick Poynder - 1854 - 408 lapas
...Syn'dic, s. A magistrate. A delegate , Syn'dicate, s. A body of syndies Synec'doche, s. A figure, by which a part is put for the whole, or the whole for a part Syn'od, s. A meeting of ecclesiasties. Conjunction of the heavenly bodies before established or assumed... | |
 | Freeborn Garretson Hibbard - 1856 - 590 lapas
...by Christ, paternal and kingly authority. These figures of speech, so common in Scripture style, by which a part is put for the whole, or the whole for a part — the subject for the predicate, or the predicate for the subject — will be readily comprehended... | |
 | David Williams - 1858 - 388 lapas
...courage; " the firm, or house of stopped payment;" Q. What is meant by synecdoche?—A. It is when part is put for the whole., or the whole for a part; as when we say, " We descried a sail," instead of saying, " We descried a ship." OBs. The current expressions,... | |
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Synecdoche is the rhetorical figure by which a part is put for the whole, or the whole for a part Quintilian Inst, viii., 6, 19. 
