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Consisting of, or pert. to, a syndic.

Confédération Générale du Travail) which aims to abolish the present political and social system by means of the general strike (as distinguished from the local or sectional strike) and direct action of whatever kind (as distinguished from action which takes effect only through the medium of political action) -- direct…

One who advocates or practices syndicalism. --Syn`dic*al*is"tic (#), a.

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

Act or process of syndicating or forming a syndicate.

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

Pertaining to the state of pairing together sexually; -- said of animals during periods of procreation and while rearing their offspring. Morgan.

Late, -- as opposed to soon. [Each rogue] shall be discovered either soon or syne. W. Hamilton (Life of Wallace).

A figure or trope by which a part of a thing is put for the whole (as, fifty sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as, the smiling year for spring), the species for the genus (as, cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as, a creature for a man), the name of the material for the thing made, etc. B…

Expressed by synecdoche; implying a synecdoche. Isis is used for Themesis by a synecdochical kind of speech, or by a poetical liberty, in using one for another. Drayton.

By synecdoche.

A disease of the eye, in which the iris adheres to the cornea or to the capsule of the crystalline lens.

A contraction of two syllables into one; synizesis.

Growing on the angles of a stem, as the leaves in some species of Selaginella.

An order of fishes, resembling the Physoclisti, without spines in the dorsal, anal, and ventral fins. It includes the true flying fishes.

The interjunction, or joining, of words in uttering the clauses of sentences.

Same as Synæresis.

Working together; coöperating; as, synergetic muscles.

The doctrine or theory, attributed to Melanchthon, that in the regeneration of a human soul there is a coöperation, or joint agency, on the part both of God and of man.

One who holds the doctrine of synergism.