synecdochic
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From synecdoche + -ic.
Adjective
[edit]synecdochic (comparative more synecdochic, superlative most synecdochic)
- 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.