syn|ec|do|chism

syn|ec|do|chism
syn|ec|do|chism «sih NEHK duh KIHZ uhm», noun.
1. synecdochic style; the use of synecdoche.
2. the use in contagious magic of a part of an object or person as an equivalent of the whole object or person, so that anything done with the part is held to take effect upon the whole: »

One or more pieces of the skull (for in synecdochism the piece carries the virtue of the whole) of the slain were used as amulets (Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology).


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