Crossword-Solution: METONYMY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Metonymy | n. | A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “METONYMY”
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| Kin of synecdoche | 1 answer |
| figure of speech in which one thing is replaced by another associated with it | 1 answer |
| substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself | 1 answer |
| Figure of speech | 23 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEMAZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with METONYMY (5)
All the Omnific made When in a word he said, (Mystery!) He uttered _thee_; Thee His great utterance bore, O secret metaphor Of what Thou dream’st no jot! Cosmic metonymy! Weak world-unshuttering key! One Seal of Solomon! Trope that itself not scans Its huge significance, Which tries Cherubic eyes.
And so I addressed this poor little expensive old woman in the following terms, converting her by a violent metonymy into a comprehensive plural.
Quoth he, Whatever others deem ye, I understand your metonymy: Your words of second-hand intention, When things by wrongful names you mention; 590 The mystick sense of all your terms, That are, indeed, but magick charms To raise the Devil, and mean one thing, And that is down-right conjuring; And in itself more warrantable, 595 Than cheat, or canting to a rabble, Or putting tricks upon the Moon, Which by confed'racy are done.
She bowled over one pupil with "microcosm," another the next minute with "metonymy "; "nymphean" and "naphtha" sent two more to their seats; while the silent "m" in "mnemonics" cut a most fearful swath in the remainder, so that after the smoke of that bomb was dissipated only Julia, Ruth, and two others stood of all the class.
But the essential point to note is that "goodness" and "badness" in the first instance refer to the fundamental cleavage between the affective qualities of experience, and only secondarily and by metonymy apply to objects in the physical world which affect our conscious states.
Quotes with METONYMY (2)
Lacan, as we have seen in our discussion of Freud, regards the unconscious as structured like a language. This is not only because it works by metaphor and metonymy: it is also because, like language itself for the post-structuralists, it is composed less of signs — stable meanings — than of signifiers. If you dream of a horse, it is not immediately obvious what this signifies: it may have many contradictory meanings, may be just one of a whole chain of signifiers with equall…
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1990).