synthesist

[Eng. synthes(is); -ist.] One who employs synthesis, or who follows synthetic methods. syn-thět-Ic, syn-thět'-ic-al, adj . [Gr. synthe tikos skilled in putting together; synthetes =one who puts together.] [SYNTHESIS.] Pertaining or relating to synthesis; consisting in or according to synthesis. "The methods [he observes] of attaining a knowledge of nature, may be two; either the analytic or the synthetia, The first is proceeding from the causes to the effects. The second, from the effects to the causes." - Hooke : Posthumous Works , p. 330. synthetic-types, s. pl. Biol.: (See extract.) "Synthetic- types are those which combine in a well-bal anced measure features of several types occurring as dis tinct, only at a later time. Sauroid Fishes and Ichthyosauri are more distinctly synthetic than prophetic types."- Aga iz : Cla ification , p. 178. syn-thět-ic-al-lý, adv . [Eng. synthetical; -ly.] In a synthetical manner; by synthesis; according to the rules of synthesis. syn-thět-ize, v. t. [SYNTHETIC.] To unite in regular structure. *syn-to-mỹ, s. [Gr. syntomia, syntemno=to cut short.] Brevity, concisene . syn-ton-in, s. [Gr.syntonia=stretching: syn= together, and teinō -to stretch.], Chem.: Muscle-fibrin. Liebig's name for a white, opaque, gelatinous substance, prepared by slightly heating muscle freed from blood with dilute hydrochloric acid, filtering, and precipitating with sodic carbonate. It is soluble in dilute hydrochloric acid and in feebly alkaline liquid, but insoluble in a solution of sodium chloride. A similar substance, giving all the reactions of syntonin, is obtained by treating egg albumen with dilute hydrochloric acid. [MUSCULIN.] *syn-û'-şi-ăst, s. [Gr. syn =with, together, and ousia existence.] One who holds the doctrine of consubstantiation. ( Rogers : Thirty - Nine Articles, p. 289.)