syphilization

[Eng. syphiliz (e); -ation.] Pathol.: Saturation of the system by inoculation with syphilitic virus. This method was introduced by M. Auzais Turenne in 1850. "The system seemed to become protected, as in ordinary inoculation and vaccination, and a state or diathesis was produced, in which the body was no longer capable of being affected by syphilis; and the proce by which this is accomplished is that to which the name syphilization belongs."-Copland: Dict. Prac. Med . (ed. 1886), p. 489. 3979 Syrian Jacobites, s . pl . Church Hist.: The members of the church that once pervaded Syria. The great body of them now reside near Mosul and Mardin, in Me so pot am i a, others are in or near Aleppo. A large colony, now however much reduced by conversions to Roman Catholicism, exists in Malabar and Travancore in India. They call themselves Jacobites, nominally from the patriarch Jacob, really from Jacob Bardæus, Bishop of Orfa (Ede a), who died in 558, and who was succe ful in reuniting the Monophysites. They use the Syriac language in their liturgy. Syrian-hue, s. Bot.: Peganum harmala . Sýr-I-an-işm, s. [Eng. Syrian ; -ism.] A Syrian idiom, phrase, or expre ion. Sýr-I-ăşm, s . [Eng. Syri (a); -asm.] The same as SYRIANISM (q. v.). "The Scripture Greek is observed to be full of Syri asms and Hebraisms."-War burton: Doctrine of Grace.