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  • English Word Synagogue Definition A congregation or assembly of Jews met for the purpose of worship, or the performance of religious rites.
  • English Word Synagogue Definition The building or place appropriated to the religious worship of the Jews.
  • English Word Synagogue Definition The council of, probably, 120 members among the Jews, first appointed after the return from the Babylonish captivity; -- called also the Great Synagogue, and sometimes, though erroneously, the Sanhedrin.
  • English Word Synagogue Definition A congregation in the early Christian church.
  • English Word Synagogue Definition Any assembly of men.
  • English Word Synalepha Definition A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army.
  • English Word Synallagmatic Definition Imposing reciprocal obligations upon the parties; as, a synallagmatic contract.
  • English Word Synallaxine Definition Having the outer and middle toes partially united; -- said of certain birds related to the creepers.
  • English Word Synaloepha Definition Same as Synalepha.
  • English Word Synangia Definition of Synangium
  • English Word Synangium Definition The divided part beyond the pylangium in the aortic trunk of the amphibian heart.
  • English Word Synantherous Definition Having the stamens united by their anthers; as, synantherous flowers.
  • English Word Synanthesis Definition The simultaneous maturity of the anthers and stigmas of a blossom.
  • English Word Synanthous Definition Having flowers and leaves which appear at the same time; -- said of certain plants.
  • English Word Synanthrose Definition A variety of sugar, isomeric with sucrose, found in the tubers of the Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), in the dahlia, and other Compositae.
  • English Word Synapta Definition A genus of slender, transparent holothurians which have delicate calcareous anchors attached to the dermal plates. See Illustration in Appendix.
  • English Word Synaptase Definition A ferment resembling diastase, found in bitter almonds. Cf. Amygdalin, and Emulsin.
  • English Word Synapticula Definition One of numerous calcareous processes which extend between, and unite, the adjacent septa of certain corals, especially of the fungian corals.
  • English Word Synapticulae Definition of Synapticula
  • English Word Synarchy Definition Joint rule or sovereignity.
  • English Word Synartesis Definition A fastening or knitting together; the state of being closely jointed; close union.
  • English Word Synarthrodia Definition Synarthrosis.
  • English Word Synarthroses Definition of Synarthrosis
  • English Word Synarthrosis Definition Immovable articulation by close union, as in sutures. It sometimes includes symphysial articulations also. See the Note under Articulation, n., 1.
  • English Word Synastry Definition Concurrence of starry position or influence; hence, similarity of condition, fortune, etc., as prefigured by astrological calculation.
  • English Word Synaxis Definition A congregation; also, formerly, the Lord's Supper.
  • English Word Syncarp Definition A kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia; also, a similar multiple fruit, as a mulberry.
  • English Word Syncarpia Definition of Syncarpium
  • English Word Syncarpium Definition Same as Syncarp.
  • English Word Syncarpous Definition Composed of several carpels consolidated into one ovary.