Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SYN-CHRON'IC-AL, a. [See Synchronism.]

Happening at the same time; simultaneous. – Boyle.

SYN'CHRO-NISM, n. [Gr. συν, with, and χρονος, time.]

Concurrence of two or more events in time; simultaneous.

SYN'CHRO-NIZE, v.i. [supra.]

To agree in time; to be simultaneous. – Robinson.

SYN'CHRO-NOUS, a.

Happening at the same time; simultaneous. – Arbuthnot.

SYN'CHRO-NOUS-LY, adv. [supra.]

At the same time.

SYN'CHY-SIS, n. [Gr. συν, and χυω.]

Confusion; derangement; confusion of words in a sentence; derangement of humors in the eye.

SYN-CLI'NAL, or SYN-CLIN'IC, a. [or SYN-CLIN'IC-AL. Gr. συν and κλινω.]

Dipping toward each other; as strata. The line in which such strata meet, is called the synclinal line.

SYNCLINICAL-LINE, or AXIS, n. [Synclinical line or axis; Gr. συγκλινω, to bend down.]

In geology, where the strata dip downward in opposite directions, like the sides of a gutter.

SYN'CO-PATE, v.t. [See Syncope.]

1. To contract, as a word, by taking one or more fetters or syllables from the middle.
2. In music, to prolong a note begun on the unaccented part of a bar, to the accented part of the next bar; or to connect the last note of a bar with the first of the following; or to end a note in one part, in the middle of a note of another part.

SYN'CO-PA-TED, pp.

1. Contracted by the loss of a letter from the middle of the word.
2. Inverted, as the measure in music.

SYN'CO-PA-TING, ppr.

Contracting by the loss of a letter in the middle of a word.

SYN-CO-PA'TION, n.

1. The contraction of a word by taking a letter, letters or a syllable from the middle.
2. In music, an interruption of the regular measure; an inversion of the order of notes; a prolonging of a note begun on the unaccented part of a bar, to the accented part of the next bar; also, a driving note, when a shorter note at the beginning of a measure is followed by two or more longer notes before another short note occurs, equal to that which occasioned the driving, to make the number even. – Encyc.

SYN'CO-PE, or SYN'CO-PY, n. [Gr. συγκοπη, from συγκοπτω; συν, and κοπτω, to cut off.]

1. In music, the same as syncopation; the division of a note introduced when two or more notes of one part answer to a single note of another.
2. In grammar, an elision or retrenchment of one or more letters or a syllable from the middle of a word.
3. In medicine, a fainting or swooning; a diminution or interruption of the motion of the heart, and of respiration, accompanied with a suspension of the action of the brain and a temporary loss of sensation, volition and other faculties. – Cyc.

SYN'CO-PIST, n.

One who contracts words.

SYN'CO-PIZE, v.t.

To contract by the omission of a letter or syllable.

SYN'CRE-TISM, n. [Gr. συγκρησις.]

A mixture in philosophy or religion. He is plotting a carnal syncretism, and attempting the reconcilement of Christ and Belial. – Baxter.

SYN'CRE-TIST, n.

One of a sect or branch of the Hussites in Bohemia and Moravia, who differed from the church of Rome in regard to the use of the chalice, or communion in both kinds. – Murdock.

SYN-CRE-TIS'TIC, a.

Pertaining to the Syncretists.

SYN'DIC, n. [L. syndicus; Gr. συνδικος; συν, with, and δικη, justice.]

An officer of government, invested with different powers in different countries; a kind of magistrate intrusted with the affairs of a city or community. In Geneva, the syndic is the chief magistrate. Almost all the companies in Paris, the university, &c., have their syndics. The university of Cambridge has its syndics.

SYN'DI-CATE, n.

In some countries on the European continent, a council; a branch of government. – Burnet.

SYN'DI-CATE, v.t.

To judge, or to censure.

SYN'DRO-ME, or SYN'DRO-MY, n. [Gr. συνδρομη, a running together.]

1. Concurrence. – Glanville.
2. In medicine, the concourse or combination of symptoms in a disease. – Cyc.

SYN-EC'DO-CHE, or SYN-EC'DO-CHY, n. [Gr. συνεκδοχη; συν and εκδεχομαι, to take.]

In rhetoric, a figure or trope by which the whole of a thing is put for a part, or a part for the whole; as the genus for the species, or the species for the genus, &c. – Cyc.

SYN-EC-DOCH'IC-AL, a.

Expressed by synecdoche; implying a synecdoche. – Boyle.

SYN-EC-DOCH'IC-AL-LY, adv.

According to the synecdochical mode of speaking. – Pearson.