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The living together in more or less imitative association or even close union of two dissimilar organisms. In a broad sense the term includes parasitism, or antagonistic, or antipathetic, symbiosis, in which the association is disadvantageous or destructive to one of the organisms, but ordinarily it is used of cases wh…

A combining together of parts or ingredients. [Obs.]

To experience together. [Obs.] "This sympathized . . . error." Shak.

Plaiting or joining together; -- said of a bone next above the quadrate in the mandibular suspensorium of many fishes, which unites together the other bones of the suspensorium. -- n.

Of or pertaining to compotations and merrymaking; happening where company is drinking together; as, symposiac meetings. Symposiac disputations amongst my acquaintance. Arbuthnot.

A drinking together; a symposium. "Our symposion last night." Sir W. Scott.

A drinking together; a merry feast. T. Warton.

A prefix meaning with, along with, together, at the same time. Syn- becomes sym- before p, b, and m, and syl- before l.

The union, or drawing together into one syllable, of two vowels that are ordinarily separated in syllabification; synecphonesis; -- the opposite of diæresis.

A fastening or knitting together; the state of being closely jointed; close union. [R.] Coleridge.

Uniting and blending together different systems, as of philosophy, morals, or religion. Smart.

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.

Having the toes firmly united together for some distance, and without an intermediate web, as the kingfishers; gressorial.

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.

Working together; coöperating; as, synergetic muscles.

Having the two main flexor tendons of the toes blended together.

Connected system or order; union of things; a number of things jointed together; organism. [Obs.] They owe no other dependence to the first than what is common to the whole syntax of beings. Glanvill.

Composition, or the putting of two or more things together, as in compounding medicines.

A wind instrument made of reeds tied together; -- called also pandean pipes.