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Syn`dy*as"mi*an (?), a. [Gr. syndyasmo`s a pairing, fr. syndya`zein to pair.] Pertaining to the state of pairing together sexually; -- said of animals during periods of procreation and while rearing their offspring. Morgan.

Syne (?), adv. [See Since.] 1. Afterwards; since; ago. [Obs. or Scot.] R. of Brunne.

2. Late, -- as opposed to soon.

W. Hamilton (Life of Wallace).

Syne, conj. Since; seeing. [Scot.]

Syn*ec"do*che (sn*k"d*k), n. [L. synecdoche, Gr. synekdochh`, fr. to receive jointly; sy`n with + &?; to receive; &?; out + &?; to receive.] (Rhet.) 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. Bain.

Syn`ec*doch"ic*al (?), a. Expressed by synecdoche; implying a synecdoche.

Isis is used for Themesis by a synecdochical kind of speech, or by a poetical liberty, in using one for another.

Drayton.

Syn`ec*doch"ic*al*ly, adv. By synecdoche.

||Syn*e"chi*a (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to hold together; sy`n ||with + &?; to hold.] (Med.) A disease of the eye, in which the iris ||adheres to the cornea or to the capsule of the crystalline lens.

||Syn*ec`pho*ne"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to utter ||together.] (Gram.) A contraction of two syllables into one; ||synizesis.

Syn*e"dral (?), a. [Gr. &?; sitting with; sy`n with + "e`dra seat.] (Bot.) Growing on the angles of a stem, as the leaves in some species of Selaginella.

||Syn`en*tog"na*thi (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. sy`n with + 'ento`s ||within + gna`qos jaw.] (Zoöl.) An order of fishes, resembling the ||Physoclisti, without spines in the dorsal, anal, and ventral fins. It ||includes the true flying fishes.

Syn"e*py (?), n. [Gr. &?;; sy`n with + &?; a word.] (Rhet.) The interjunction, or joining, of words in uttering the clauses of sentences.

Syn*er"e*sis (?), n. Same as Synæresis.

Syn`er*get"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to work together; sy`n with + 'e`rgon work.] Working together; coöperating; as, synergetic muscles.

Syn"er*gism (?), n. [See Synergetic.] (Theol.) The doctrine or theory, attributed to Melanchthon, that in the regeneration of a human soul there is a coöperation, or joint agency, on the part both of God and of man.

Syn"er*gist (?), n. [Cf. F. synergiste.] 1. One who holds the doctrine of synergism.

2. (Med.) A remedy which has an action similar to that of another remedy, and hence increases the efficiency of that remedy when combined with it.

Syn`er*gis"tic (?), a. 1. Of or pertaining to synergism. "A synergistic view of regeneration." Shedd.

2. Coöperating; synergetic.

Syn"er*gy (?), n. [Gr. &?;. See Synergetic.] Combined action; especially (Med.), the combined healthy action of every organ of a particular system; as, the digestive synergy.

||Syn`ge*ne"si*a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. sy`n with, together + &?; ||generation, birth.] (Bot.) A Linnæan class of plants in which the ||stamens are united by the anthers.

{ Syn`ge*ne"sian (?), Syn`ge*ne"sious (?), } a. (Bot.) Having the stamens united by the anthers; of or pertaining to the Syngenesia.

Syn*gen"e*sis (?), n. [Pref. syn- + genesis.] (Biol.) A theory of generation in which each germ is supposed to contain the germs of all subsequent generations; -- the opposite of epigenesis.

||Syng"na*thi (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. sy`n with + &?; jaw.] (Zoöl.) 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. -- Syng"na*thous (#), a.

Syn"graph (?), n. [L. syngrapha, Gr. &?;; sy`n with + &?; to write.] (Law) A writing signed by both or all the parties to a contract or bond.