synecdochic

English

Etymology

synecdoche +‎ -ic

Adjective

synecdochic (comparative more synecdochic, superlative most synecdochic)

  1. Synonym of synecdochical
    • 2012, Clifford Ando, Imperial Rome AD 193 to 284: The Critical Century (The Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome), 22 George Square, Edinburgh EH89LF: Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 55:
      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.
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