Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
syntax . - noun In anatomy, same as
articulation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Syntax.
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- noun obsolete, grammar
Syntax . - noun geology A
convergence ofmountain ranges , orgeological folds , towards a single point. - noun crystallography Syntaxy.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mountain building in the Cape region formed megafolds and monoclines, with the highest terrain diversity seen where two trends of folding meet (syntaxis).
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[598] Cf. for this syntaxis, Matt. 19: 16-22 and Ex. 20: 13-16.
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955
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They are the eight parts of speech which go to the syntaxis of service, and are distinguished by their noises much like bells, for they make not a concert but a peal.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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D. 150 and originally called Μαθηματικη συνταξις {Mathêmatikê syntaxis}, came to be known as Μεγαλη συνταξις {Megalê syntaxis}; the Arabs made up from the superlative μεγιστος {megistos} the word al-Majisti which became
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He runs over all sciences to peruse their syntaxis, and thinks all learning comprised in writing Latin.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemæus of Pelusium) constituted a new astronomical system that claimed the Earth to be immovable in the centre of the universe; a system that seemed, as it were, to reach its completion when, between a.d. 142 and 146, Ptolemy wrote a work called Megale mathematike syntaxis tes astronomias, its Arabian title being transliterated by the Christians of the Middle Ages, who named it "Almagest".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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It will possibly be asked here, is grammar then of no use? and have those who have taken so much pains in reducing several languages to rules and observations; who have writ so much about declensions and conjugations, about concords and syntaxis, lost their labour, and been learned to no purpose?
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(Jeremy Taylor) or ‘synonymum’ (Hacket), and ‘synonyma’ (Milton, prose), became severally ‘synonym’ and ‘synonyms’; ‘syntaxis’ (Fuller) became
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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Where they find a youth of spirit, let them endeavour to govern that spirit without extinguishing it; to bend it, without breaking it; for when it comes once to be extinguished, and broken, and lost, it is not in the power or art of man to recover it: and then (believe it) no knowledge of nouns and pronouns, syntaxis and prosodia, can ever compensate or make amends for such a loss.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823
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One is William Walker, English examples of the Latine syntaxis: Or, The rules of the Latine syntaxis exemplified in English sentences, fitted and framed to the construction of those rules.
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