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Definition of Synesis
1. n. A construction in which adherence to some element in the sense causes a departure from strict syntax, as in "Philip went down to Samaria and preached Christ unto them."
Definition of Synesis
1. a type of grammatical construction [n -SISES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Synesis
Literary usage of Synesis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"synesis. 263. Different parts of speech, especially pronouns, often assume a
different gender or number from that required by the strict rules of ..."
2. A Grammar of the German Language Designed for a Thorough and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1913)
"This assignment of gender and number according to meaning is called synesis (,
ie understanding, sense). I. synesis of Gender. Words may assume their gender ..."
3. An Elementary Greek Grammar: Based on the Latest German Edition of Kühner by Raphael Kühner, Charles O'Leary (1856)
"... it be susceptible of gender-terminations. 3. An adjective used substantively,
cannot bave another adjective as attributive. §108. PRINCIPLES OF synesis* ..."
4. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1874)
"The power and activity of organic memory—the intensity of synesis and of ...
1 have elsewhere endeavoured to show that the encephalic synesis upon which ..."
5. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Albert Harkness (1881)
"Of adject., 438 if.; w. clause, 438, 3; synesis, 438, 6; w. one noun for another,
438, 7; ... Of verbs, 460 ff. ; synesis, 461 ; w. appos. or pred. noun, ..."
6. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"synesis. 263. Different parts of speech, especially pronouns, often assume a
different gender or number from that required by the strict rules of ..."
7. A Grammar of the German Language Designed for a Thorough and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1913)
"This assignment of gender and number according to meaning is called synesis (,
ie understanding, sense). I. synesis of Gender. Words may assume their gender ..."
8. An Elementary Greek Grammar: Based on the Latest German Edition of Kühner by Raphael Kühner, Charles O'Leary (1856)
"... it be susceptible of gender-terminations. 3. An adjective used substantively,
cannot bave another adjective as attributive. §108. PRINCIPLES OF synesis* ..."
9. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1874)
"The power and activity of organic memory—the intensity of synesis and of ...
1 have elsewhere endeavoured to show that the encephalic synesis upon which ..."
10. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Albert Harkness (1881)
"Of adject., 438 if.; w. clause, 438, 3; synesis, 438, 6; w. one noun for another,
438, 7; ... Of verbs, 460 ff. ; synesis, 461 ; w. appos. or pred. noun, ..."
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