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Definition of Syncretise
1. Verb. Become fused.
Generic synonyms: Blend, Coalesce, Combine, Commingle, Conflate, Flux, Fuse, Immix, Meld, Merge, Mix
Derivative terms: Syncretism
2. Verb. Unite (beliefs or conflicting principles).
Definition of Syncretise
1. Verb. (alternative form of syncretize) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Syncretise
1. [v -TISED, -TISING, -TISES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Syncretise
Literary usage of Syncretise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1907)
"263-267) that there were really two festivals which tended, as usual in Egypt,
to syncretise, one in November, the season of sowing, and one at the winter ..."
2. A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern by John Mackinnon Robertson (1906)
"It seems rather to have been a priestly effort to syncretise these. Still, such
an effacement did take place, as we have seen, in Central Asia in ancient ..."
3. The Expositor edited by William Robertson Nicoll, Samuel Cox, James Moffatt (1877)
"From this circumstance the Greek word " syncretise" (a-vy/cp^ta-ai) came into
customary use. The Cretans in the earliest times of their history adopted the ..."
4. Prehistoric Archæology and the Old Testament: Being the Donnellan Lectures by Hugh John Dukinfield Astley (1908)
"... it was this conception that made it so easy for the people to syncretise his
worship with the Canaanite Baals, as was done all through her history, ..."
5. Christian Morals by William Sewell (1841)
"... with the spirit and doctrines of Christianity hanging over you, you will be
tempted, in a degree of which you will scarcely be sensible, to syncretise; ..."
6. Christian Morals by William Sewell (1841)
"... with the spirit and doctrines of Christianity hanging over you, you will be
tempted, in a degree of which you will scarcely be sensible, to syncretise; ..."
7. Quests for Salvation in New Testament Times by Charles James Ritchey (1922)
"to syncretise with the various faiths which lay in its on-going path. There was
a continual insistence on ethical conduct of the individual 'and Jehovah as ..."
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