synecdochize

English

Etymology

From synecdoche +‎ -ize.

Verb

synecdochize (third-person singular simple present synecdochizes, present participle synecdochizing, simple past and past participle synecdochized)

1. To represent with or as if with a synecdoche.
   • 2016, S. Newstok, Ayanna Thompson, Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance, page 290

     ...for those things that synecdochize this relationship between the real and the spectral.

   • 1986, Marilyn Schneider, Vengeance of the Victim: History and Symbol in Giorgio Bassani's Fiction, page 41

     The Finzi-Continis synecdochize the ethnic case par excellence.

   • 2002, Paul Dowling, The Sociology of Mathematics Education: Mathematical Myths / Pedagogic Texts, page 146

     The text may also proceduralize through the use of exemplars which constitute specific instances which tacitly stand for, or synecdochize, a whole class.

   • 1990, Clayton Koelb, Nietzsche as Postmodernist: Essays Pro and Contra, page 173

     In this phenomenological sense, Berger is aware that in looking at Hals's paintings, he synecdochizes a partial perception, that he chooses to see specific...

   • 1990, Susan Hardy AikenRosi Braidotti, Paul Gilroy, Isak Dinesen and the Engendering of Narrative, page 173

     ...multiply inscribed within it, the smelling-bottles synecdochize the larger fragmentary "story" of woman, the "Gift" whose contours Augustus, seeing only through...

See also

• synecdochization
• synecdochizations
• synecdochise
• synecdochisation
• synecdochisations