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Synecdochic

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Synonym of synecdochical.

    "Hence "public rites," "the rites of the Roman people," those rites conducted by magistrates, were performed on behalf of the citizen body as a whole, and, as a corollary, all citizens as individuals were understood to assent to those rites and, by synecdochic representation, to participate in them."

Adjective
  1. 1
    using the name of a part for that of the whole or the whole for the part; or the special for the general or the general for the special; or the material for the thing made of it wordnet

Etymology

From synecdoche + -ic.

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