1. Sycophantic plants, or parasites, are such as adhere to other plants, and depend on them for support. NWAD SYCOPHANTIC.2
1. Consisting of a syllable or syllables; as a syllabic augment. NWAD SYLLABIC.2
1. A letter, or a combination of letters, uttered together, or at a single effort or impulse of the voice. A vowel may form a syllable by itself, as a, the definitive, or in amen; e in even; o in over, and the like. A syllable may also be formed of a vowel and one consonant, as in go, do, in, at; or a syllable may be formed by a vowel with two articulations, one preceding, the other following it, as in can, but, tun; or a syllable may consist of a combination of consonants, with one vowel or diphthong, as strong, short, camp, voice. NWAD SYLLABLE.2
A syllable sometimes forms a word, and is then significant, as in go, run, write, sun, moon. In other cases, a syllable is merely part of a word, and by itself is not significant. Thus ac, in active, has no signification. NWAD SYLLABLE.3
At least one vowel or open sound is essential to the formation of a syllable; hence in every word there must be as many syllables as there are single vowels, or single vowels and diphthongs. A word is called according to the number of syllables it contains, viz. NWAD SYLLABLE.4
Monosyllable, a word of one syllable. NWAD SYLLABLE.5
Dissyllable, a word of two syllables. NWAD SYLLABLE.6
Trisyllable, a word of three syllables. NWAD SYLLABLE.7
Polysyllable, a word of many syllables. NWAD SYLLABLE.8
2. A small part of a sentence or discourse; something very concise. This account contains not a syllable of truth. NWAD SYLLABLE.9
Before a syllable of the law of God was written. NWAD SYLLABLE.10
1. In grammar, a figure by which we conceive the sense of words otherwise than the words import, and construe them according to the intention of the author; otherwise called substitution. NWAD SYLLEPSIS.2
2. The agreement of a verb or adjective, not with the word next to it, but with the most worthy in the sentence; as, rex et regina beati. NWAD SYLLEPSIS.3
A form or reasoning or argument, consisting of three propositions, of which the two first are called the premises, and the last the conclusion. In this argument, the conclusion necessarily follows from the premises; so that if the two first propositions are true, the conclusion must be true, and the argument amounts to demonstration. Thus, NWAD SYLLOGISM.2
A plant has not the power of locomotion; NWAD SYLLOGISM.3
An oak is a plant; NWAD SYLLOGISM.4
Therefore an oak has not the power of locomotion. NWAD SYLLOGISM.5
These propositions are denominated the major, the minor, and the conclusion. NWAD SYLLOGISM.6
Men have endeavored to teach boys to syllogize, or to frame arguments and refute them, without real knowledge. NWAD SYLLOGIZE.2
1. A collection of poetical pieces of various kinds. NWAD SYLVA.2
Her private orchards, wall’d on ev’ry side, NWAD SYLVAN.3
To lawless sylvans all access deni’d. NWAD SYLVAN.4
1. The sign or representation of any moral thing by the images or properties of natural things. Thus the lion is the symbol of courage; the lamb is the symbol of meekness or patience. Symbols are of various kinds, as types, enigmas, parables, fables, allegories, emblems, hieroglyphics, etc. NWAD SYMBOL.2
2. An emblem or representation of something else. Thus in the eucharist, the bread and wine are called symbols of the body and blood of Christ. NWAD SYMBOL.3
3. A letter or character which is significant. The Chinese letters are most of them symbols. The symbols in algebra are arbitrary. NWAD SYMBOL.4
4. In medals, a certain mark or figure representing a being or thing, as a trident is the symbol of Neptune, the peacock of June, etc. NWAD SYMBOL.5
5. Among christians, an abstract or compendium; the creed, or a summary of the articles of religion. NWAD SYMBOL.6
6. Lot; sentence of adjudication. [Not in use.] NWAD SYMBOL.7
The sacrament is a representation of Christ’s death, by such symbolical actions as he appointed. NWAD SYMBOLIC.2
Symbolical philosophy, is the philosophy expressed by hieroglyphics. NWAD SYMBOLIC.3
The pleasing of color symbolizeth with the pleasing of a single tone to the ear, but the pleasing of order doth symbolize with harmony. NWAD SYMBOLIZE.2
They both symbolize in this, that they love to look upon themselves through multiplying gasses. NWAD SYMBOLIZE.3
1. To make representative of something. NWAD SYMBOLIZE.5
Some symbolize the same from the mystery of its colors. NWAD SYMBOLIZE.6
Uniform symmetry, in architecture, is where the same ordonnance reigns throughout the whole. NWAD SYMMETRY.2
Respective symmetry, is where only the opposite sides are equal to each other. NWAD SYMMETRY.3
1. Pertaining to sympathy. NWAD SYMPATHETIC.2
2. Having common feeling with another; susceptible of being affected by feelings like those of another, or of feelings inconsequence of what another feels; as a sympathetic heart. NWAD SYMPATHETIC.3
3. Among physicians, produced by sympathy. A sympathetic disease is one which is produced by sympathy, or by a remote cause, as when a fever follows a local injury. In this case, the word is opposed to idiopathetic, which denotes a disease produced by a proximate cause, or an original disease. Thus an epilepsy is sympathetic, when it is produced by some other disease. NWAD SYMPATHETIC.4
4. Among chimists and alchimists, an epithet applied to a kind of powder, possessed of the wonderful property that if spread on a cloth dipped in the blood of a wound, the wound will be healed, though the patient is at a distance. This opinion is discarded as charlatanry. NWAD SYMPATHETIC.5
This epithet is given also to a species of ink or liquor, with which a person may write letters which are not visible till something else is applied. NWAD SYMPATHETIC.6
5. In anatomy, sympathetic is applied to two nerves, from the opinion that their communications are the cause of sympathies. One of these is the great intercostal nerve; the other is the facial nerve. NWAD SYMPATHETIC.7
1. To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain. NWAD SYMPATHIZE.2
The mind will sympathize so much with the anguish and debility of the body, that it will be too distracted to fix itself in meditation. NWAD SYMPATHIZE.3
2. To feel in consequence of what another feels; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected. We sympathize with our friends in distress; we fell some pain when we see them pained, or when we are informed of their distresses, even at a distance. NWAD SYMPATHIZE.4
[It is generally and properly used of suffering or pain, and not of pleasure or joy. It may be sometimes used with greater latitude.] NWAD SYMPATHIZE.5
3. To agree; to fit. [Not in use.] NWAD SYMPATHIZE.6
1. Fellow feeling; the quality of being affected by the affection of another, with feelings by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if not in degree. We feel sympathy for another when we see him in distress, or when we are informed of his distresses. This sympathy is a correspondent feeling of pain or regret. NWAD SYMPATHY.2
Sympathy is produced through the medium of organic impression. NWAD SYMPATHY.3
I value myself upon sympathy; I hate and despise myself for envy. NWAD SYMPATHY.4
2. An agreement of affections or inclinations, or a conformity of natural temperament, which makes two persons pleased with each other. NWAD SYMPATHY.5
To such associations may be attributed most of the sympathies and antipathies of our nature. NWAD SYMPATHY.6
3. In medicine, a correspondence of various parts of the body in similar sensations or affections; or an affection of the whole body or some part of it, in consequence of an injury or disease of another part, or of a local affection. Thus a contusion on the head will produce nausea and vomiting. This is said to be by sympathy, or consent of parts. NWAD SYMPATHY.7
4. In natural history, a propension of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other. Thus we say, there is a sympathy between the lodestone and iron. NWAD SYMPATHY.8
--Sounds NWAD SYMPHONIOUS.2
Symphonious of ten thousand harps. NWAD SYMPHONIOUS.3
1. A consonance or harmony of sounds agreeable to the ear, whether the sounds are vocal or instrumental, or both. NWAD SYMPHONY.2
The trumpets sound, NWAD SYMPHONY.3
And warlike symphony is heard around. NWAD SYMPHONY.4
2. A musical instrument, mentioned by French writers. NWAD SYMPHONY.5
3. A full concert. NWAD SYMPHONY.6
4. An overture or other composition for instruments. NWAD SYMPHONY.7
1. In anatomy, the union of bones by cartilage; a connection of bones without a movable joint. NWAD SYMPHYSIS.2
2. In surgery, a coalescence of a natural passage; also, the first intention of cure in a wound. NWAD SYMPHYSIS.3
Symposiac disputations. [Not much used.] NWAD SYMPOSIAC.2
1. Properly, something that happens in concurrence with another thing, as an attendant. Hence in medicine, any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease. The causes of disease often lie beyond our sight, but we learn the nature of them by the symptoms. Particular symptoms which more uniformly accompany a morbid state of the body, and are characteristic of it, are called pathognomonic or diagnostic symptoms. NWAD SYMPTOM.2
2. A sign or token; that which indicates the existence of something else; as, open murmurs of the people are a symptom of disaffection to law or government. NWAD SYMPTOM.3
1. In medicine, a symptomatic disease is one which proceeds from some prior disorder in some part of the body. Thus a symptomatic fever may proceed from local pain or local inflammation. It is opposed to idiopathic. NWAD SYMPTOMATIC.2
2. According to symptoms; as a symptomatical classification of diseases. NWAD SYMPTOMATIC.3
1. A congregation or assembly of Jews, met for the purpose of worship or the performance of religious rites. NWAD SYNAGOGUE.2
2. The house appropriated to the religious worship of the Jews. NWAD SYNAGOGUE.3
3. The court of the seventy elders among the Jews, called the great synagogue. NWAD SYNAGOGUE.4
1. 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. NWAD SYNCOPATE.2
1. Inverted, as the measure in music. NWAD SYNCOPATED.2
1. 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. NWAD SYNCOPATION.2
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. NWAD SYNCOPE.2
2. In grammar, an elision or retrenchment of one or more letters or a syllable from the middle of a word. NWAD SYNCOPE.3
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. NWAD SYNCOPE.4
1. Concurrence. NWAD SYNDROME.2
2. In medicine, the concourse or combination of symptoms in a disease. NWAD SYNDROME.3
1. In church history, a council or meeting of ecclesiastics to consult on matters of religion. Synods are of four kinds, 1. General or ecumenical, which are composed of bishops from different nations. 2. National, in which the bishops of one nation only meet, to determine points of doctrine or discipline. 3. Provincial, in which the bishops of one province only meet. This is called a convocation. 4. Diocesan. NWAD SYNNEUROSIS.2
In Scotland, a synod is composed of several adjoining presbyteries. The members are the ministers, and a ruling elder from each parish. A synod in the United States is constituted in like manner as in Scotland. NWAD SYNNEUROSIS.3
2. A meeting, convention or council; as a synod of gods. NWAD SYNNEUROSIS.4
Let us call to synod all the blest. NWAD SYNNEUROSIS.5
3. In astronomy, a conjunction of two or more planets or stars in the same optical place of the heavens. NWAD SYNNEUROSIS.6
Synodals are due of common right to the bishop only. NWAD SYNODAL.2
1. Constitutions made in provincial or diocesan synods, are sometimes called synodals. NWAD SYNODAL.3
Synodical month, in astronomy, is the period from one conjunction of the moon with the sun to another. This is called also a lunation, because in the course of it the moon exhibits all its phases. This month consists of 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, 3 seconds and 11 thirds. NWAD SYNODAL.5
He has extricated the synonyms of former authors. NWAD SYNONYM.2
1. In rhetoric, a figure by which synonymous words are used to amplify a discourse. NWAD SYNONYMY.2
1. According to the rules of syntax or construction. NWAD SYNTACTIC.2
1. In grammar, the construction of sentences; the due arrangement of words in sentences, according to established usage. Syntax includes concord and regimen, or the agreement and government of words. Words, in every language, have certain connections and relations, as verbs and adjectives with nouns, which relations must be observed in the formation of sentences. A gross violation of the rules of syntax is a solecism. NWAD SYNTAX.2
2. Connected system or order; union of things. [Not in use.] NWAD SYNTAX.3
1. Composition, or the putting of two or more things together, as in compound medicines. NWAD SYNTHESIS.2
2. In logic, composition, or that process of reasoning in which we advance by a regular chain from principles before established or assumed, and propositions already proved, till we arrive at the conclusion. Synthesis is the opposite of analysis or resolution. NWAD SYNTHESIS.3
3. In surgery, the operation by which divided parts are reunited. NWAD SYNTHESIS.4
4. In chimistry, the uniting of elements into a compound; the opposite of analysis, which is the separation of a compound into its constituent parts. That water is composed of oxygen and hydrogen, is proved both by analysis and synthesis. NWAD SYNTHESIS.5