单词 | metonymical |
释义 | metonymicaladj. Chiefly Rhetoric. Now archaic. = metonymic adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adjective] > metonymic metonymical1563 analogical1623 analogous1653 metonymic1775 analogistic1881 1563 G. Hay Confut. Abbote of Crosraguels Masse f. 18 We may..answer, this speaking of our Sauioure, to be sacramentall, metonymical. 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 210 The whole speache being figuratiue, both allegoricall, and metonymicall. 1610 J. Dove Advt. Seminaries 9 The meaning of Saint Chrysostome is metonimicall, and not proper. 1674 J. Owen Disc. Holy Spirit in Wks. (1852) III. 115 This expression is metonymical, that being spoken of the cause which is proper to the effect. 1711 G. Hickes Two Treat. (ed. 3) I. 70 Learned Men have taken Altar here in the metonymical Sense for the Altar-offering. 1811 A. McLean Comm. Heb. vi. (1847) I. 245 The apostle continues the metonymical use of the word hope, by which it is put for the object or ground of it. 1948 Amer. Lit. 20 277 His delight in putting them to metonymical uses. 1993 C. Tilley Interpretative Archaeol. 17 Metonymical relations are syntagmatic, between members of a particular chain. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1563 |
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