a. [f. mod.L. synecdochicus: see prec. and -ICAL.] a. Gram. and Rhet. Involving or constituting synecdoche.
1597. Drayton, Heroic. Ep., Shore’s Wife to Edw. IV., Note 2. Isis heere is vsed for Thamesis by a Senecdochicall [1608 synecdochicall] kinde of speech.
1619. Sir J. Sempill, Sacrilege Handled, 21. Tremellius wisely noteth, this speech to be both Synecdochicall, in putting Sacrifices, for all sorts of Offrings…: And Metonymicall.
1637. Gillespie, Engl. Pop. Cerem., III. viii. 165. The first … is the proper signification; the second is metaphoricall; the third synegdochicall.
1650. Fuller, Pisgah, II. v. 134. A cup being taken here by a synecdochicall metonymie for all plentifull provisions.
1702. C. Mather, Magn. Chr., VII. i. 5/2. Synecdochical [mispr. -doctrical] Pay, being a certain Figure in our avaritious … Rhetoric, by which there passes, pars pro Toto.
1876. J. Martin, trans. Keil’s Comm. Ezekiel xl. 38–47. A synecdochical designation applied to every kind of animal sacrifice.
b. Ethnol. = prec. b.
1887. O. T. Mason, in Science, 7 Jan., 17/2. Synechdochical Magic.
