Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 213

Synagogue (n.) A congregation or assembly of Jews met for the purpose of worship, or the performance of religious rites.

Synagogue (n.) The building or place appropriated to the religious worship of the Jews.

Synagogue (n.) The council of, probably, 120 members among the Jews, first appointed after the return from the Babylonish captivity; -- called also the Great Synagogue, and sometimes, though erroneously, the Sanhedrin.

Synagogue (n.) A congregation in the early Christian church.

Synagogue (n.) Any assembly of men.

Synalepha (n.) A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army.

Synallagmatic (a.) Imposing reciprocal obligations upon the parties; as, a synallagmatic contract.

Synallaxine (a.) Having the outer and middle toes partially united; -- said of certain birds related to the creepers.

Synaloepha (n.) Same as Synalepha.

Synangia (pl. ) of Synangium

Synangium (n.) The divided part beyond the pylangium in the aortic trunk of the amphibian heart.

Synantherous (a.) Having the stamens united by their anthers; as, synantherous flowers.

Synanthesis (n.) The simultaneous maturity of the anthers and stigmas of a blossom.

Synanthous (a.) Having flowers and leaves which appear at the same time; -- said of certain plants.

Synanthrose (n.) A variety of sugar, isomeric with sucrose, found in the tubers of the Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), in the dahlia, and other Compositae.

Synapta (n.) A genus of slender, transparent holothurians which have delicate calcareous anchors attached to the dermal plates. See Illustration in Appendix.

Synaptase (n.) A ferment resembling diastase, found in bitter almonds. Cf. Amygdalin, and Emulsin.

Synapticulae (pl. ) of Synapticula

Synapticula (n.) One of numerous calcareous processes which extend between, and unite, the adjacent septa of certain corals, especially of the fungian corals.

Synarchy (n.) Joint rule or sovereignity.

Synartesis (n.) A fastening or knitting together; the state of being closely jointed; close union.

Synarthrodia (n.) Synarthrosis.

Synarthroses (pl. ) of Synarthrosis

Synarthrosis (n.) Immovable articulation by close union, as in sutures. It sometimes includes symphysial articulations also. See the Note under Articulation, n., 1.

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

Synaxis (n.) A congregation; also, formerly, the Lord's Supper.

Syncarp (n.) 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.

Syncarpia (pl. ) of Syncarpium

Syncarpium (n.) Same as Syncarp.

Syncarpous (a.) Composed of several carpels consolidated into one ovary.

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

Synchondroses (pl. ) of Synchondrosis

Synchondrosis (n.) An immovable articulation in which the union is formed by cartilage.

Synchondrotomy (n.) Symphyseotomy.

Synchoresis (n.) A concession made for the purpose of retorting with greater force.

Synchronal (a.) Happening at, or belonging to, the same time; synchronous; simultaneous.

Synchronal (n.) A synchronal thing or event.

Synchronical (a.) Happening at the same time; synchronous.

Synchronism (n.) The concurrence of events in time; simultaneousness.

Synchronism (n.) The tabular arrangement of historical events and personages, according to their dates.

Synchronism (n.) A representation, in the same picture, of two or events which occured at different times.

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

Synchronization (n.) The act of synchronizing; concurrence of events in respect to time.

Synchronized (imp. & p. p.) of Synchronize

Synchronizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Synchronize

Synchronize (v. i.) To agree in time; to be simultaneous.

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

Synchronize (v. t.) To cause to agree in time; as, to synchronize the movements of different machines; to synchronize clocks.

Synchronology (n.) Contemporaneous chronology.

Synchronous (a.) Happening at the same time; simultaneous.

Synchrony (n.) The concurrence of events in time; synchronism.

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

Synclastic (a.) 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.

Synclinal (a.) Inclined downward from opposite directions, so as to meet in a common point or line.

Synclinal (a.) Formed by strata dipping toward a common line or plane; as, a synclinal trough or valley; a synclinal fold; -- opposed to anticlinal.

Synclinal (n.) A synclinal fold.

Syncline (n.) A synclinal fold.

Synclinical (a.) Synclinal.

Synclinoria (pl. ) of Synclinorium

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

Syncopal (a.) Of or pertaining to syncope; resembling syncope.

Syncopated (imp. & p. p.) of Syncopate

Syncopating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Syncopate

Syncopate (v. t.) To contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester."

Syncopate (v. t.) To commence, as a tone, on an unaccented part of a measure, and continue it into the following accented part, so that the accent is driven back upon the weak part and the rhythm drags.

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

Syncopation (n.) The act of syncopating; a peculiar figure of rhythm, or rhythmical alteration, which consists in welding into one tone the second half of one beat with the first half of the beat which follows.

Syncope (n.) 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.

Syncope (n.) Same as Syncopation.

Syncope (n.) A fainting, or swooning. See Fainting.

Syncope (n.) A pause or cessation; suspension.

Syncopist (n.) One who syncopates.

Syncopize (v. t.) To syncopate.

Syncotyledonous (a.) Having united cotyledonous.

Syncretic (a.) Uniting and blending together different systems, as of philosophy, morals, or religion.

Syncretism (n.) Attempted union of principles or parties irreconcilably at variance with each other.

Syncretist (n.) One who attempts to unite principles or parties which are irreconcilably at variance;

Syncretist (n.) 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.

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

Syncretistic (a.) Of or pertaining to Syncretists.

Syncrisis (n.) A figure of speech in which opposite things or persons are compared.

Syncitia (pl. ) of Syncytium

Syncytium (n.) 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.

Syncytium (n.) The ectoderm of a sponge.

Syndactyle (n.) Any bird having syndactilous feet.

Syndactylic (a.) Syndactilous.

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

Syndesmography (n.) A description of the ligaments; syndesmology.

Syndesmology (n.) That part of anatomy which treats of ligaments.

Syndesmoses (pl. ) of Syndesmosis

Syndesmosis (n.) An articulation formed by means of ligaments.

Syndetic (a.) Alt. of Syndetical

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

Syndic (n.) An officer of government, invested with different powers in different countries; a magistrate.

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

Syndicate (n.) The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.

Syndicate (n.) 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.

Syndicate (v. t.) To judge; to censure.

Syndrome (n.) Concurrence.

Syndrome (n.) A group of symptoms occurring together that are characteristic and indicative of some underlying cause, such as a disease.

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