British public, metonymically represented by its addressee, Henry Cullen.    From Wordnik.com.  [London-Kingston-Caracas: The Transatlantic] Reference

So people metonymically transferred Juno's attribute to what was coming out of the mint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

If these words must be expounded metonymically, and not properly, it must be because either, -- (1.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Pneumatologia] Reference

Topos metonymically touches the 'inside' and 'outside' of poetry, in a somewhat ordinary, graspable way.    From Wordnik.com.  [_Queen Mab_ as Topological Repertoire] Reference

Ultimately, then, property could be said to derive from self-possession and thus metonymically from identity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Copyright] Reference

Symbols of the proprietor's wealth (and metonymically the diner's), they are also symbols of division and longing.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth] Reference

Female bodies in particular are metonymically read through their accessories as a full package that can be "taken.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text] Reference

It is entertainment generally — all advertisement, radio, television, film, and music — that appears metonymically on.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision] Reference

The name was then metonymically transferred to the repository in which that relic was preserved, and afterwards, by a natural expansion, became the ordinary designation of the smaller sanctuaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850] Reference

It keeps getting itself bogged down with the merely metonymically representative: all the twisty ins-and-outs of personal and political interaction, all the nooks and crannies of the worldbuilding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kit Whitfield, In Great Waters (2009)] Reference

The passive verbs "are seen," "are heard," confirm the futility of Shelley's "struggles" but they also make him elusive, especially since one next finds that he has been metonymically reduced to "despair.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Paranoid Politics: Shelley and the _Quarterly Review_] Reference

Well, yes, I was using “RSS” metonymically to refer to the broader phenomenon of folks seeking feeds, installing readers hence “applications” or setting up web accounts, and establishing alerts to particular sources of information or you-name-it.    From Wordnik.com.  [davidrothman.net » Interfaces & Expectations of Users] Reference

In short, here's the issue: We have minimal evidence of the life of William Shakespeare, and especially minimal evidence connecting him to the plays we associate metonymically with his name where "Shakespeare" stands for the body of work, for the plays, and for numerous classes on those works.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR on the Shakespeare Authorship Question, Part One: Drama vs Realism] Reference

By the time the allusion reaches Broglio it has been quadruply deferred — the dismembered Philomel reconstitutes herself at the loom; she is memorialized by Sophocles and then lost; Aristotle remembers her story, then displaces it metonymically onto the "voice" and again synechdocally onto the "shuttle.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blake & Virtuality: An Exchange] Reference

That is, to 'invent' the suffering body is to represent it metonymically, through relations of partial substitution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Progressive Bloggers] Reference

Or, secondly, exousi'a may be taken metonymically for those over whom power is exercised, i.e. kingdom, as it is used in Col. 1, 13.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians] Reference

As a result, the term X-ray is metonymically used to refer to a radiographic image produced using this method, in addition to the method itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ultimi bookmark postati su Segnalo] Reference

The term has also been metonymically used as an informal reference to the whole military-administrative organisation of the Zaporizhian Cossack Host.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Australia mining firm strikes gold in RP] Reference

The word hukm, which commonly signifies the exercise of government or judicial power, is here used metonymically in the sense of the place of dominion, the seat of government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp] Reference

"In a metalepsis, a word is substituted metonymically for a word in a previous trope, so that a metalepsis can be called, maddeningly but accurately, a metonymy of a metonymy.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Jihad Monitor] Reference

"Following the path of contiguous relationships," Roman Jakobson wrote famously, "the Realist author metonymically digresses from the plot to the atmosphere and from the characters to the setting in space and time.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chicago Blog] Reference

In a nutshell, I argue that, when it comes to the modern political order, one of its privileged parts always stands for the whole: bourgeois legality metonymically signifies legitimacy in general, constitutional law and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [TELOSscope: The Telos Press blog] Reference

I'm arguing that depth is always there - not in a superficial Evangelion or Ergo Proxy fashion - but in the reality that is connoted, not the reality that is denoted as its own microcosm: anime metonymically connotes the entirety of reality, but denotes only a small focal portion of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [THAT Animeblog] Reference

This, however, is not the full weight of the tale that Wordsworth borrows; for him, it is not the maid’s value as a proper reader that he draws on, but her selflessness, metonymically meaningful for him as her nut-brown figuration, her naturalization as nutted or fruitful, and her loyalty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wordsworth’s Balladry: Real Men Wanted] Reference

In fact, it is similar to Mary Douglas 'notion of how meals gain their meaning - "The smallest, meanest meal metonymically figures the structure of the grandest, and each unit of the grand meal figures again the whole meal - or the meanest meal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Limited, Inc.] Reference

A morbid terminus is suggested, metonymically, by.    From Wordnik.com.  [San Francisco Bay Guardian: Top Stories] Reference

2) That chair is used metonymically in the same way as the Crown and the Oval Office is true, but to refer to the office, not to the person occupying it.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 2] Reference

Hence metonymically feeling.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians] Reference

"ram", which metonymically stands for "the horn of a ram".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

Biçè, his horns; nackòj, turgid, filled out, stuffed; biçènackòji, turgid horns -- metonymically, the mountain sheep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 379-468] Reference