Syncope (sing kope)

[= F. syncope = Sp. sincope, sincopa =Pg. syncope, syncopa = It. sin cope, sincopa, Revelry, and dance, and show Suffer a syncope and solemn pause; While God performs upon the trembling stage Of his own works his dreadful part alone. Cowper , Task, ii. 80. 4. In music: ( a ) Same as syncopation. (b) The combination of two voice-parts so that two or more tones in one coincide with a single tone IMG:content-2702.png:[blocks in formation] In the little metric at the end of my Greek grammar I have adopted it [the recognition of deficient times] from them, with the name of syncope , which they had given it. J. Hadley, E ays, p. 109. Cat-syncope, fainting produced in peculiarly susceptible persons by the proximity of a cat: similar to asthmatic attacks likewise produced, called cat - asthma.