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or SYNCRATISM, atcomprehensive tempt to establish a scheme intended to unite or blend harmoniously one with the other principles or parties in irreconcilable antagonism. Specifically, in philosophy, the blending of the tenets of different schools into a universal system. A party among the Platonists, at the revival of letters, to which belonged Ammonius, Picadella Mirandola, Bessarion, and other eminent men, have received the name of Syncretists.
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an officer of government invested with varying powers in different places; a kind of magistrate intrusted with the management of the affairs of a city or community; also one chosen to transact business for others. In the University of Cambridge, England, syndics are chosen from the senate to transact special business, as the regulation of fees, the operations of the Clarendon Press, etc. Mayors of Italian towns are so called.
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originally, councils or bodies of syndics; afterward, associations of persons formed with a view of promoting some particular enterprise, discharging some trust, trust, or the like; now, combinations of capitalists for the purpose of controlling production and raising prices; popularly known in the United States as "trusts."
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in rhetoric, a figure in which the whole is put for a part, or a part for the whole, as the species for the genus, the genus for the species, etc., as, a fleet of 10 sail.
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in Church history, a type of Semipelagianism which came into prominence in Germany in the 16th century, and which had for its chief representatives Erasmus and Melanchthon. Luther taught that the Fall rendered man incapable of all good, and powerless powerless to contribute anything to his conversion. Synergism, on the other hand, taught that "God does not deal with man as with a block, but draws him so that his will co-operates"; and this view was adopted in the Leipsic Interim (1548). A controversy arose on the subject, caused by the publication of a book in 1558 on the "Liberty of the Will," by Pfeffinger, a professor at Leipsic, which university together with Wittenberg represented the Synergist view. Flacius, Professor of Theology at Jena, took the strictly Lutheran view which was adopted in the Formula of Concord.
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JOHN MILLINGTON, an Irish dramatist and poet, born in 1871. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1892, and for 10 years following studied languages and music in Germany, France, and Italy. He finally settled in Paris and devoted himself to the study of French literature. During the period of his stay on the continent, he annually made trips to the Arran Islands, in order to write of the primitive life of its inhabitants . In 1893 he settled in Ireland and devoted himself to writing for the Abbey Theater, in Dublin. He was considered to be the most talented of the dramatists of the Irish Literary Revival. His plays, which were produced in the United States with considerable success, included "The Shadow of the Glen" (1903); " Riders to the Sea" (1904); "The Well of the Saints" (1905); "The Tinker's Wedding" (1909); and "Playboy of the Western World" (1907). He died in 1909.
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a synod held at Dort, Dordt, or Dordrecht, in Southern Holland, in 1618 and 1619, to discuss the views of Arminius, which it condemned.
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in astronomy, the period between two successive conjunctions or oppositions of two heavenly bodies. A synodical month is a lunation , being the period from one full moon to the next full moon or from new moon to next new moon. It is 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, 2.37 seconds.
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or words having the same signification, strictly speaking, do not exist in any language; and in the popular use of the term synonyms are words sufficiently alike in general signification to be liable to be confounded , but yet so different in special definition as to require to be distinguished. The opposite of synonyms are antonyms.
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that part of grammar which treats of the manner of connecting words into regular sentences, constructing sentences by the due arrangement of words or members in their mutual relations according to established usage. In every language there is some fundamental principle which pervades and regulates its whole construction, though it may occasionally admit of particular variations. In some languages the principle of juxtaposition prevails, and little diversity of arrangement is possible, as is the case in English, in which inflections are so few. The relations of the subject, the action , and the object are indicated by their respective positions. In other languagesinflected languages like Latin or Greekthese relations are indicated by the changes in the forms of the words , and the modes of arrangement are various . Still, in the structure and and disposition of sentences and parts of sentences the logical relations of the thoughts must regulate the construction, even where it appears to be most arbitrary.
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in chemistry, the building up of more or less complex bodies by the direct union of their elements , or of groups of elements. Thus, water can be produced synthetically by the union of two atoms of hydrogen with one atom of oxygen. In logic, the method by composition, in opposition to the method of resolution or analysis. In s n synthesis, we reason from axioms, definitions, and already known principles, till we arrive at a desired conclusion. Of this nature are most of the processes of geometrical reasoning. In synthesis, we ascend from particular cases to general ones; in analysis, we descend from general cases to particulars.
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A king of the Masaesyllii in Numidia, who married Sophonisba , the daughter of Hasdrubal . He joined the Carthaginians against the Romans, and was taken by Scipio as a prisoner to Rome, where he died in prison. Syracusae (Siracusa in Italian, Syracuse in English). The wealthiest and most populous town in Sicily, situated on the southern part of the eastern coast, four hundred stadia north of the promontory Plemmyrium, and ten stadia northeast of the mouth of the river Anapus, near the lake or marsh called Syraco, from which it derived its name. There were several stone quarries (lautumiae) in Syracuse, which are frequently mentioned by ancient writers, and in which the unfortunate Athenian prisoners were confined. On one side of these quarries is the remarkable excavation called the Ear of Dionysius, in which it is said that this tyrant confined the persons whom he suspected, and that he was able, from a little apartment above, to overhear the conversation of his captives. Syria (in Aramaean Surja: Soristan, Arab. Esh-Sham, i. e., the land on the left, Syria). A country of western Asia , lying along the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea , between Asia Minor and Egypt.
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