syntax (sintaks)

[Formerly, as LL., syn taxis, sintaxis; The fifth [consideration] is concerning the syntax and disposition of studies, that men may know in what order or pursuit to read. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 2. In gram., the construction of sentences; the due forming and arrangement of words or members of sentences in their mutual relations according to established usage. Syntax includes the proper use of parts of speech and of forms in their combinations to make sentences, and their proper arrangement or collocation. Dive, syntax ist (sin-tak's is), n. Same as syntax. syntectic (sin-tek'tik), a. [L. syntectic us, syntenosis (sin-te-no's is), n.; pl. syntenoses (-sez). [NL., a watching closely, observation, ρεῖν, watch closely, observe together, IMG:content-2716.jpg:[ocr errors] Synteresis , or the purer part of the conscience, is an innate habit, and doth signify "a conversation of the knowledge of the law of God and Nature, to know good or evil." Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 106.