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  • English Word Syndesmosis Definition An articulation formed by means of ligaments.
  • English Word Syndetic Definition Alt. of Syndetical
  • English Word Syndetical Definition Connecting; conjunctive; as, syndetic words or connectives; syndetic references in a dictionary.
  • English Word Syndic Definition An officer of government, invested with different powers in different countries; a magistrate.
  • English Word Syndic Definition An agent of a corporation, or of any body of men engaged in a business enterprise; an advocate or patron; an assignee.
  • English Word Syndicate Definition The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.
  • English Word Syndicate Definition An association of persons officially authorized to undertake some duty or to negotiate some business; also, an association of persons who combine to carry out, on their own account, a financial or industrial project; as, a syndicate of bankers formed to take up and dispose of an entire issue of government bonds.
  • English Word Syndicate Definition To judge; to censure.
  • English Word Syndrome Definition Concurrence.
  • English Word Syndrome Definition A group of symptoms occurring together that are characteristic and indicative of some underlying cause, such as a disease.
  • English Word Syndyasmian Definition Pertaining to the state of pairing together sexually; -- said of animals during periods of procreation and while rearing their offspring.
  • English Word Syne Definition Afterwards; since; ago.
  • English Word Syne Definition Late, -- as opposed to soon.
  • English Word Syne Definition Since; seeing.
  • English Word Synecdoche Definition A figure or trope by which a part of a thing is put for the whole (as, fifty sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as, the smiling year for spring), the species for the genus (as, cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as, a creature for a man), the name of the material for the thing made, etc.
  • English Word Synecdochical Definition Expressed by synecdoche; implying a synecdoche.
  • English Word Synecdochically Definition By synecdoche.
  • English Word Synechia Definition A disease of the eye, in which the iris adheres to the cornea or to the capsule of the crystalline lens.
  • English Word Synecphonesis Definition A contraction of two syllables into one; synizesis.
  • English Word Synedral Definition Growing on the angles of a stem, as the leaves in some species of Selaginella.
  • English Word Synentognathi Definition An order of fishes, resembling the Physoclisti, without spines in the dorsal, anal, and ventral fins. It includes the true flying fishes.
  • English Word Synepy Definition The interjunction, or joining, of words in uttering the clauses of sentences.
  • English Word Syneresis Definition The union, or drawing together into one syllable, of two vowels that are ordinarily separated in syllabification; synecphonesis; -- the opposite of diaeresis.
  • English Word Syneresis Definition Same as Synaeresis.
  • English Word Synergetic Definition Working together; cooperating; as, synergetic muscles.
  • English Word Synergism Definition The doctrine or theory, attributed to Melanchthon, that in the regeneration of a human soul there is a cooperation, or joint agency, on the part both of God and of man.
  • English Word Synergist Definition One who holds the doctrine of synergism.
  • English Word Synergist Definition A remedy which has an action similar to that of another remedy, and hence increases the efficiency of that remedy when combined with it.
  • English Word Synergistic Definition Of or pertaining to synergism.
  • English Word Synergistic Definition Cooperating; synergetic.