| synecdoche | |
| si-nek'-do-kee | Gk. "to take with something else" |
| Also sp. syndoche | |
| intellectio, subintellectio, pars pro toto | |
| intelleccion, figure of quick conceite |
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A whole is represented by naming one of its parts (genus named for species), or vice versa (species named for genus). | |
| Examples | ||
| The rustler
bragged he'd absconded with five hundred head of longhorns. Both "head" and "longhorns" are parts of cattle that represent them as wholes Listen, you've got to come take a look at my new set of wheels. "He shall think differently," the musketeer threatened, "when he feels
the point of my steel." |
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| Related Topics of Invention | ||
| Sources: | Ad Herennium 4.33.44-45 ("intellectio"); Quintilian 8.6.19-22; Trebizond 61r ("intellectio"); Susenbrotus (1540) 7-8 ("synecdoche," "intellectio"; Sherry (1550) 42 ("synecdoche," "intellectio," "intelleccion"); Peacham (1577) C3r; Fraunce (1588) 1.8-11; Putt. (1589) 196, 205 ("synecdoche," "figure of quick conceite"); Day 1599 78; Hoskins 1599 11; Melanchthon (1531) b1r | |
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