Concurrence of starry position or influence; hence, similarity of condition, fortune, etc., as prefigured by astrological calculation.

A congregation; also, formerly, the Lord's Supper.

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.

Same as Syncarp.

Composed of several carpels consolidated into one ovary.

Not capable of being used as a term by itself; -- said of words, as an adverb or preposition.

An immovable articulation in which the union is formed by cartilage.

Symphyseotomy.

A concession made for the purpose of retorting with greater force.

A synchronal thing or event.

Happening at the same time; synchronous.

The concurrence of events in time; simultaneousness.

Of or pertaining to synchronism; arranged according to correspondence in time; as, synchronistic tables.

The act of synchronizing; concurrence of events in respect to time.

To assign to the same date or period of time; as, to synchronize two events of Greek and Roman history.

Contemporaneous chronology.

Happening at the same time; simultaneous.

The concurrence of events in time; synchronism.

A derangement or confusion of any kind, as of words in a sentence, or of humors in the eye.

Curved toward the same side in all directions; -- said of surfaces which in all directions around any point bend away from a tangent plane toward the same side, as the surface of a sphere; -- opposed to anticlastic.

A synclinal fold.

A synclinal fold.

Synclinal.

A mountain range owing its origin to the progress of a geosynclinal, and ending in a catastrophe of displacement and upturning.

Of or pertaining to syncope; resembling syncope.

To contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, /Gloster/ is a syncopated form of /Gloucester./

The act of syncopating; the contraction of a word by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; syncope.

An elision or retrenchment of one or more letters or syllables from the middle of a word; as, ne'er for never, ev'ry for every.

One who syncopates.

To syncopate.

Having united cotyledonous.

Uniting and blending together different systems, as of philosophy, morals, or religion.

Attempted union of principles or parties irreconcilably at variance with each other.

One who attempts to unite principles or parties which are irreconcilably at variance; an adherent of George Calixtus and other Germans of the seventeenth century, who sought to unite or reconcile the Protestant sects with each other and with the Roman Catholics, and thus occasioned a long and violent controversy in the Lutheran church.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, syncretism; as, a syncretistic mixture of the service of Jehovah and the worship of idols.

A figure of speech in which opposite things or persons are compared.

Tissue in which the cell or partition walls are wholly wanting and the cell bodies fused together, so that the tissue consists of a continuous mass of protoplasm in which nuclei are imbedded, as in ordinary striped muscle.

Any bird having syndactilous feet.

Having two or more digits wholly or partly united. See Syndactylism.

Syndactilous.

Having the toes firmly united together for some distance, and without an intermediate web, as the kingfishers; gressorial.

A description of the ligaments; syndesmology.

That part of anatomy which treats of ligaments.

An articulation formed by means of ligaments.

Connecting; conjunctive; as, syndetic words or connectives; syndetic references in a dictionary.

An officer of government, invested with different powers in different countries; a magistrate.

Consisting of, or pert. to, a syndic.

The theory, plan, or practice of trade-union action (originally as advocated and practiced by the French Conf/d/ration G/n/rale du Travail) which aims to abolish the present political and social system by means of the general strike (as distinguished from the local or sectional strike) and direct action of whatever kind (as distinguished from action which takes effect only through the medium of political action) -- direct action including any kind of action that is directly effective, whether it be a simple strike, a peaceful public demonstration, sabotage, or revolutionary violence. By the general strike and direct action syndicalism aims to establish a social system in which the means and processes of production are in the control of local organizations of workers, who are manage them for the common good.

One who advocates or practices syndicalism.

To unite to form a syndicate.

Act or process of syndicating or forming a syndicate.

Concurrence.

Pertaining to the state of pairing together sexually; -- said of animals during periods of procreation and while rearing their offspring.

Since; seeing.

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.

Expressed by synecdoche; implying a synecdoche.

By synecdoche.

A disease of the eye, in which the iris adheres to the cornea or to the capsule of the crystalline lens.

A contraction of two syllables into one; synizesis.

Growing on the angles of a stem, as the leaves in some species of Selaginella.

The interjunction, or joining, of words in uttering the clauses of sentences.

Same as Synaeresis.

The union, or drawing together into one syllable, of two vowels that are ordinarily separated in syllabification; synecphonesis; -- the opposite of diaeresis.

Working together; cooperating; as, synergetic muscles.

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.

One who holds the doctrine of synergism.

Of or pertaining to synergism.

Combined action the combined healthy action of every organ of a particular system; as, the digestive synergy.

A construction in which adherence to some element in the sense causes a departure from strict syntax, as in /Philip went down to Samaria and preached Christ unto them./

A Linnaean class of plants in which the stamens are united by the anthers.

Having the stamens united by the anthers; of or pertaining to the Syngenesia.

A theory of generation in which each germ is supposed to contain the germs of all subsequent generations; -- the opposite of epigenesis.

A suborder of lophobranch fishes which have an elongated snout and lack the ventral and first dorsal fins. The pipefishes and sea horses are examples.

A writing signed by both or all the parties to a contract or bond.

An obliteration of the pupil of the eye.

Syndesmosis.

See Synochus.

Of or pertaining to synocha; like synocha.

A continuous fever.

A sense organ found in certain sponges. It consists of several filaments, each of which arises from a single cell.

An ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters.

A tribute in money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, at the time of his Easter visitation, by every parish priest, now made to the ecclesiastical commissioners; a procuration.

Of or pertaining to a synod; transacted in, or authorized by, a synod; as, synodical proceedings or forms.

In a synodical manner; in a synod; by the authority of a synod.

An adherent to a synod.

Having stamens and pistil in the same head, or, in mosses, having antheridia and archegonia on the same receptacle.

Sworn brotherhood; a society in ancient Greece nearly resembling a modern political club.

One of two or more words (commonly words of the same language) which are equivalents of each other; one of two or more words which have very nearly the same signification, and therefore may often be used interchangeably. See under Synonymous.

Synonyms.

Synonymous.

Synonymously.

Same as Synonym.

The science, or the scientific treatment, of synonymous words.

Of or pertaining to synonyms, or synonymic; synonymous.

A dictionary of synonyms.

One who collects or explains synonyms.

To express by a synonym or synonyms; to give the synonym or synonyms corresponding to.

Having the character of a synonym; expressing the same thing; conveying the same, or approximately the same, idea.

The quality of being synonymous; sameness of meaning.

A general view, or a collection of heads or parts so arranged as to exhibit a general view of the whole; an abstract or summary of a discourse; a syllabus; a conspectus.

One of the first three Gospels of the New Testament. See Synoptist.

Affording a general view of the whole, or of the principal parts of a thing; as, a synoptic table; a synoptical statement of an argument.

Any one of the authors of the three synoptic Gospels, which give a history of our Lord's life and ministry, in distinction from the writer of John's Gospel, which gives a fuller record of his teachings.

That part of anatomy which treats of joints; arthrology.

Union by means of bone; the complete closing up and obliteration of sutures.

Same as Synosteosis.

A transparent, viscid, lubricating fluid which contains mucin and secreted by synovial membranes; synovial fluid.

Of or pertaining to synovia; secreting synovia.

Inflammation of the synovial membrane.

Having the two main flexor tendons of the toes blended together.

Having united sepals; gamosepalous.

Of or pertaining to syntax; according to the rules of syntax, or construction.

Connected system or order; union of things; a number of things jointed together; organism.

Syntax.

Prophylaxis.

Preserving health; prophylactic.

That department of medicine which relates to the preservation of health; prophylaxis.

Having the same degree of heat.

Composition, or the putting of two or more things together, as in compounding medicines.

One who employs synthesis, or who follows synthetic methods.