English English Dictionary

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.

Of or pertaining to Syncretists.

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.

The ectoderm of a sponge.

Any bird having syndactilous feet.

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.

of Syndesmosis

An articulation formed by means of ligaments.

Alt. of Syndetical

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.

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

The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.

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.