syllabub (silabub)

Same as sillibub. syllabus (sil'a-bus), n.; pl. syllabuses, syllabi (-bus-ez, -bi). [= -bī). [= F. syllabus, All these ble ings put into one syllabus have given to baptism many honourable appellatives in Scripture and other divine writers. Jer . Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 122. Turning something difficult in his mind that was not in the scholastic syllabus . Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, ii. 11. 2. In the Rom. Cath. Ch., a summary statement and enumeration of the points decided by an act or decree of ecclesiastical authority; specifically, a catalogue formulating eighty heresies condemned by Pope Pius IX. in 1864, annexed to the encyclical letter Quanta Cura. See the quotation. Its full title is: A Syllabus , containing the Principal Errors of our Times, which are noted in the Consistorial Allocutions, in the Encyclicals, and in other Apostolical Letters of our Most Holy Lord, Pope Pius IX.. It is divided into ten sections. The first condemns pantheism, naturalism, and absolute rationalism; the second, moderate rationalism; the third, indifferentism and latitudinarianism; the fourth, socialism, communism, secret societies, Bible societies, and other "pests of this description"; the fifth, errors concerning the Church and her rights; the sixth, errors concerning civil society; the seventh, errors of natural and Christian ethics; the eighth, errors concerning Christian marriage; the ninth, errors concerning the temporal power of the pope; the tenth, errors of modern liberalism. Among the errors condemned are the principles of civil and religious liberty, and the separation of Church and State. P. Schaff , in Johnson's Univ. Cyc., IV. 688. =Syn. 1. Compendium , Epitome . See abridgment. syllepsis (si-lep's is), n . [= F. syllepse , syllepsis , σύλληψις , a taking or putting together, comprehension, syllable .] In rhet . and gram.: (a) A figure by which a word is used in the same pa age both of the person to whom or the thing to which it properly applies, and also to 6123 include other persons or things to which it does not apply properly or strictly. This figure includes zeugma and also the taking of words in two senses at once, the literal and the metaphorical, as in the following pa age, where the word sweeter is used in both senses: "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altoge, ther;... sweeter also than honey and the honey-comb." (Ps. xix. 9, 10.) Also sometimes used as equivalent to synesis. If such want be in sundrie clauses, and of seuerall congruities or sence, and the supply be made to serue them all, it is by the figure Sillepsis , whom for that respect we call the [double supplie]. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 137. (b) A figure by which one word is referred to another in the sentence to which it does not grammatically belong, as the agreement of a verb or an adjective with one rather than another of two nouns with either of which it might agree: as, rex et regina beati. sylleptic (si-lep'tik), a. [ sylleptical (si-lep'ti-kal), a. [ Syllidæ (sil'i-dē), n. pl. [NL., syllidian (si-lid'i-an), n. A worm of the family Syllidæ. Syllis (sil'is), n. [NL. (Savigny).] A genus of polychæto us ous annelids, typical in some sysnnends, typical tems of the family Syllidæ. Autolytus is a syno nym.