synechdoche

• “But, after S. Austin, the first day is taken by synechdoche, that is that the last part of the day is taken which dureth from Easter unto the utas of Whitsuntide, like as holy Church hath ordained.”

  The Golden Legend, vol. 1

• “From a lowly "single point," Cobbett proceeded outward by a kind of synechdoche through "every little wheel, peg and wire in the immense machine," to an overarching system of paper money and its manipulation in the Pitt system of finance.”

  William Cobbett and the Politics of System

• “Ask them for words they like (and come prepared with some examples, like gossamer, gloaming, synechdoche, velvet, apricot).”

  Hive Mind alert!

• “Do we, like Gagnon, reduce it to one individual, and then, by a dubious synechdoche, use it to build walls around the First Nations as a whole?”

  Archive 2009-06-01

• “Likewise, the jug at the bottom of the lake displaces water — 8 lbs of water replaces with 16 pounds of sand. (synechdoche again)”

  Matthew Yglesias » Wonks and Teachers

• “Perhaps one has to seize upon a particularly egregious instance of it and make it a symbol, or synechdoche, of the wider phenomenon.”

  Protest and martyrdom

• “I say that I do, because missing my mother is as good a synechdoche for what I do feel as anything else.”

  pung, kong, chow

• “The Cape is a synechdoche, a metaphor in which the part stands for the whole.”

  NBC set to roll out more caped crusader television? | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News

• “Way out on a limb here but I think “synechdoche” is misspelled.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Rivers and Words:

• “Geraldine and the scene of seduction are represented primarily through metonymy and synechdoche: we know”

  'Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes

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