synedrial (sinedrial)

[ Encyc. Brit., XIII. 428. The respect in which the synedrial president was held rapidly increased. synedrion, synedrium (si-ned'ri-on, -um), n.; pl. synedria (-8). [NL., συνέδριον , an a embly, σύνεδρος , sitting together: see synedrous. Hence the Heb. form represented by sanhedrim.] An a embly, especially a judicial or representative a embly; a sanhedrim. Alas! how unworthy, how incapable am I to censure the proceedings of that great senate, that high synedrion , wherein the wisdom of the whole state is epitomised? Howell , Vindication of Himself, 1677 (Harl. Misc., VI. [128). ( Davies .) The common a ertion indeed that the synedrium was at that time practically composed of scribes is inconsistent with the known facts of the case; the synedrium at that time was a political and not a scholastic authority. Encyc. Brit ., XIII. 424. synedrous (si-ne'drus), a. [ synema (si-ne'ma), n.; pl. synemata (-ma-ta), [For * synnema; in the common mallow. synentognath (si-nen'tog-nath), n. A fish of the suborder Synentognathi. Synentognathi (sin-en-tog'na-thi), n. pl. [NL., Gr.σύν, together, + ἐντός, within, + γνάθος, jaw.] A suborder of teleocephalous or physoclistous fishes with the branchial arches well developed, the third and fourth superior pharyngeals much enlarged, and the inferior pharyngeals coö i fied. It includes the families Scomberesocidæ (or Exocetidæ ) and Belonidæ . synentognathous (sin-en-tog'na-thus), a. Pertaining to the Synentognathi, or having their or a part for the whole, as the genus for the species, or the species for the genus, etc.: as, for example, a fleet of ten sail (for ships ); a master characters. employing new hands (for workmen ). Compare metonymy. Then againe if we vse such a word (as many times we doe) by which we driue the hearer to conceiue more or le e or beyond or otherwise then the letter expre eth, and it be not by vertue of the former figures Metaphore and Abase and the rest, the Greeks then call it Synecdoche. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 154. synecdochical (sin-ek-dok'i-kal), a . [ συνεκδοχικός , implying a synecdoche, synecdoche )