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Syn"cre*tism (?), n. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to make two parties join against a third: cf. F. syncrétisme.] Attempted union of principles or parties irreconcilably at variance with each other.

He is plotting a carnal syncretism, and attempting the reconcilement of Christ and Belial.

Baxter.

Syncretism is opposed to eclecticism in philosophy.

Krauth-Fleming.

Syn"cre*tist (?), n. [Cf. F. syncrétiste.] One who attempts to unite principles or parties which are irreconcilably at variance; specifically (Eccl. Hist.), 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.

Syn`cre*tis"tic (?), a. 1. Pertaining to, or characterized by, syncretism; as, a syncretistic mixture of the service of Jehovah and the worship of idols.

2. Of or pertaining to Syncretists.

||Syn"cri*sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a comparison; &?; together + ||&?; to judge.] (Rhet.) A figure of speech in which opposite things or ||persons are compared. Crabb.

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||Syn*cy"ti*um (?), n.; pl. Syncitia (#). [NL., from Gr. &?; together + ||&?; a hollow vessel.] 1. (Biol.) 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.

2. (Zoöl.) The ectoderm of a sponge.

Syn*dac"tyle (?), n. [Pref. syn- + Gr. &?; finger, toe: cf. F. syndactyle.] (Zoöl.) Any bird having syndactilous feet.

Syn*dac*tyl"ic (?), a. (Zoöl.) Syndactilous.

Syn*dac"tyl*ous (?), a. (Zoöl.) Having the toes firmly united together for some distance, and without an intermediate web, as the kingfishers; gressorial.

Syn`des*mog"ra*phy (?), n. [Gr. &?; band, bond + -graphy.] A description of the ligaments; syndesmology.

Syn`des*mol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. &?; band, bond + -logy.] That part of anatomy which treats of ligaments.

||Syn`des*mo"sis (?), n.; pl. Syndesmoses (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a ||bond; &?; together + &?; a bond, fr. &?; to bind.] (Anat.) An ||articulation formed by means of ligaments.

{ Syn*det"ic (?), Syn*det"ic*al (?), } a. [Gr. &?;, from &?; to bind together; sy`n with + &?; to bind; cf. Asyndetic.] Connecting; conjunctive; as, syndetic words or connectives; syndetic references in a dictionary. -- Syn*det"ic*al*ly, adv.

With the syndetic juxtaposition of distinct members, the article is not often repeated.

C. J. Grece (Trans. Maetzner's Gram.).

Syn"dic (?), n. [L. syndictus, Gr. &?; helping in a court of justice, advocate; sy`n with + &?; justice, akin to &?; to show: cf. F. syndic. See Teach.] 1. An officer of government, invested with different powers in different countries; a magistrate.

2. (Law) An agent of a corporation, or of any body of men engaged in a business enterprise; an advocate or patron; an assignee.

In France, syndics are appointed by the creditors of a bankrupt to manage the property. Almost all the companies in Paris, the university, and the like, have their syndics. The university of Cambridge, Eng., has its syndics, who are chosen from the senate to transact special business, such as the regulation of fees, the framing of laws, etc.

Syn"di*cate (?), n. [Cf. F. syndicat, LL. syndicatus.] 1. The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics. Bp. Burnet.

2. 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.

Syn"di*cate (?), v. t. [LL. syndicatus, p. p. of syndicare to censure.] To judge; to censure. [Obs.]

||Syn"dro*me (?), n. [NL., from Gr. &?;; sy`n with + &?; a course, a ||running.] Concurrence. [R.] Glanvill.