These 9 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Synonyms, Syntax, Synthesis.
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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the most important, though not the largest of that group of islands in the Ægean Sea known as the Cyclades. It is about 10 miles long by 5 broad, has an area of 32 square miles and is bare, rocky and not very fertile. Its prosperity is of quite modern growth. During the War of Independence Syra remained neutral, hence many fugitives of commercial enterprise flocked thither from Chios and other parts of Greece. Pop. of island about 27,000. The capital Syra or Hermoupolis, is situated on a bay on the E. side of the island. Pop. about 20,000. It rises in terraces from the shore, is well built, and is the seat of government for the Cyclades, and the seat of a Roman Catholic bishop. This port is the chief commercial entrepôt of the Ægean. Exports tobacco, emery stone, valon valona and sponges.
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sir'a-kus, an ancient city of Sicily. It was situated at the extreme south-eastern corner of the island. In the days of Greek colonization Syracuse was a Greek city. It was founded by Greeks from Corinth about 734 B. C. It was at one time the largest and wealthiest commercial city in the world. As an intellectual center, Syracuse vied in its prime with Athens and Alexandria. There were half a million inhabitants. Remains may yet be seen of a Greek temple, baths, and theater. The present town has a population of about 32,000. It is a center of trade in olive oil, lemons, and oranges. A local movement has been established for the preservation of coins, sculpture, and other relics of antiquity. See Archimedes ; Theocritus ; Dionysius ; Arethusa ; Sicily
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a co-educational institution in Syracuse, N. Y.; founded in 1871 under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 368; students, 4,033; volumes in the library, 103,222; Chancellor, Rev. J. R. Day, LL.D.
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a dialect or branch of the Aramaic, and thus one of the Semitic family of languages. It was a vernacular dialect in in Syria during the early centuries of our era, but ceased to be spoken as a living language about the 10th century, being crowded out by that of the Arabian conquerors . A very corrupted form of it, however, is still spoken by a posites or other plants. The species are numerous, and the larvæ diverse in habits. Most of the latter feed on the roots or bulbs of plants, or live in decaying wood, mud, or sewers, or in the water, or as parasites in the nests of wasps and bumble bees. Genera more than 40 and among them Syrphus, Volucella , Eristalis, Helophilus, etc. of
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an institution for higher education, founded at Beirut, Syria, in 1863, and opened in 1866. It includes a college of medicine, a college of commerce, nurses' training school, and a teachers' training course. During the World War the institution was used as a hospital. Before the war it had an enrollment of about 1,000 students. President, Rev. Howard S. Bliss.
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