synecdochically

• “They use it synecdochically -- and one of the problems of knowing a word like "synecdochically" is that you really want an excuse to say synecdochically.”

  TED: Erin McKean redefines the dictionary

• “For Sands' sacrifice to obtain value as protest, it must function synecdochically.”

  Double Feature: Hunger

• “And I could sense that she thought I was speaking synecdochically.”

  TED: Nathan Myhrvold on archeology, animal photography, BBQ ...

• “But when you use a part of something -- like the dictionary is a part of the language, or a flag stands for the United States, a symbol of the country -- then you're using it synecdochically.”

  TED: Erin McKean redefines the dictionary

• “This whole talk has just been an excuse to get me to the point where I could say synecdochically to all of you.”

  TED: Erin McKean redefines the dictionary

• “That was actually the instructor's responsibility, and obviously he failed I speak synecdochically.”

  A Question

• “Just as Wordsworth himself synecdochically becomes the abbey or temple of nature, Poe's narrator becomes the "shrine" of Ligeia who literally "haunts" him "like a passion ... a feeling and a love.”

  Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America

• “The "body" here is the same with palaios anthropos, and soma tes hamartias, the "old man," and the "body of sin," Rom.vi. 6; or it may synecdochically express the whole person considered as corrupted, and the seat of lusts and distempered affections.”

  Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers

• ““His soul was made an offering for sin,” Isa.liii. 10; and his body, “The offering of the body of Jesus Christ,” Heb.x. 10, — his blood especially, which is often synecdochically mentioned for the whole.”

  A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity

• “Patriotism in many right wing visions, especially nationalist ones, perceives the nation only synecdochically.”

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