Revely, and dance, and show, Suffer a syncope and solemn pause.
Cowper.
Syn"co*pist (?), n. One who syncopates. Addison.
Syn"co*pize (?), v. t. To syncopate.
Syn*cot`y*led"on*ous (?), a. [Pref. syn- + cotyledonous.] (Bot.) Having
united cotyledonous.
Syn*cret"ic (?), a. Uniting and blending together different systems, as
of philosophy, morals, or religion. Smart.
Syn"cre*tism (?), n. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to make two parties join against
a third: cf. F. syncrétisme.] Attempted union of principles or parties
irreconcilably at variance with each other.
He is plotting a carnal syncretism, and attempting the
reconcilement of Christ and Belial.
Baxter.
Syncretism is opposed to eclecticism in philosophy.
Krauth-Fleming.
Syn"cre*tist (?), n. [Cf. F. syncrétiste.] One who attempts to unite
principles or parties which are irreconcilably at variance;
specifically (Eccl. Hist.), an adherent of George Calixtus and other
Germans of the seventeenth century, who sought to unite or reconcile
the Protestant sects with each other and with the Roman Catholics, and
thus occasioned a long and violent controversy in the Lutheran church.
Syn`cre*tis"tic (?), a. 1. Pertaining to, or characterized by,
syncretism; as, a syncretistic mixture of the service of Jehovah and
the worship of idols.