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The symplectic bone.

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses; as, Justice came down from heaven to view the earth; Justice returned to heaven, and left the earth.

A sympodium.

Composed of superposed branches in such a way as to imitate a simple axis; as, a sympodial stem.

An axis or stem produced by dichotomous branching in which one of the branches is regularly developed at the expense of the other, as in the grapevine.

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

The master of a feast.

One engaged with others at a banquet or merrymaking. Sydney Smith.

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

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

e; as, the causes of disease often lie beyond our sight, but we learn their nature by the symptoms exhibited. Like the sick man, we are expiring with all sorts of good symptoms. Swift.

Of or pertaining to symptoms; happening in concurrence with something; being a symptom; indicating the existence of something else. Symptomatic of a shallow understanding and an unamiable temper. Macaulay.

The doctrine of symptoms; that part of the science of medicine which treats of the symptoms of diseases; semeiology.

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

Same as Synanthesis.

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

Of or pertaining to a synagogue.

first appointed after the return from the Babylonish captivity; -- called also the Great Synagogue, and sometimes, though erroneously, the Sanhedrin.

A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army. [Written also synaloepha.]

Imposing reciprocal obligations upon the parties; as, a synallagmatic contract. Bouvier.