Webster's Dictionary 1828

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SYENITE

SYENITE. [See Sienite.]

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SYKE

SYKE, noun A small brook or rill in low ground. [Local.]

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SYLLABIC

SYLLAB'ICSYLLAB'ICAL, adjective [from syllable.] Pertaining to a syllable or syllables; as syllabic accent.1. Consisting of a syllable or syllables; as a syllabic augment.

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SYLLABICAL

SYLLAB'ICAL, a. [from syllable.] Pertaining to a syllable or syllables; as syllabic accent.1. Consisting of a syllable or syllables; as a syllabic augment.

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SYLLABICALLY

SYLLAB'ICALLY, adverb In a syllabic manner.

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SYLLABICATION

SYLLABICA'TION, noun The act of forming syllables; the act or method of dividing words into syllables.

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SYLLABLE

SYL'LABLE, noun [Latin syllaba; Gr. to comprehend, and to take.]1. A letter, or a combination of letters, uttered together, or at a single effort or impulse of the voice. A vowe...

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SYLLABUB

SYL'LABUB, noun A compound drink made of wine and milk; a different orthography of sillabub.

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SYLLABUS

SYL'LABUS, noun [Latin from the same source as syllable.] An abstract; a compendium containing the heads of a discourse.

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SYLLEPSIS

SYLLEP'SIS, noun [Gr. See Syllable.]1. In grammar, a figure by which we conceive the sense of words otherwise than the words import, and construe them according to the intention...

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SYLLOGISM

SYL'LOGISM, noun [Latin syllogismus; Gr. with, and to speak; to think.]A form or reasoning or argument, consisting of three propositions, of which the two first are called the p...

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SYLLOGISTIC

SYLLOGIS'TICSYLLOGIS'TICAL, adjective Pertaining to a syllogism; consisting of a syllogism, or of the form of reasoning by syllogisms; as syllogistic arguments or reasoning.

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SYLLOGISTICAL

SYLLOGIS'TICAL, a. Pertaining to a syllogism; consisting of a syllogism, or of the form of reasoning by syllogisms; as syllogistic arguments or reasoning.

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SYLLOGISTICALLY

SYLLOGIS'TICALLY, adverb In the form of a syllogism; by means of syllogisms; as, to reason or prove syllogistically

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SYLLOGIZATION

SYLLOGIZA'TION, noun A reasoning by syllogisms.

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SYLLOGIZE

SYL'LOGIZE, verb intransitive To reason by syllogisms.Men have endeavored to teach boys to syllogize or to frame arguments and refute them, without real knowledge.

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SYLLOGIZER

SYL'LOGIZER, noun One who reasons by syllogisms.

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SYLLOGIZING

SYL'LOGIZING, participle present tense Reasoning by syllogisms.

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SYLPH

SYLPH, noun [Gr. a moth, a beetle.] An imaginary being inhabiting the air.

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SYLVA

SYL'VA, noun [Latin a wood or forest.] In poetry, a poetical piece composed in a start or kind of transport.1. A collection of poetical pieces of various kinds.

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SYLVAN

SYLVAN. [See Silvan.]SYL'VAN, noun A fabled deity of the wood; a satyr; a faun; sometimes perhaps, a rustic.Her private orchards, wall'd on ev'ry side,To lawless sylvans all acc...

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SYLVANITE

SYL'VANITE, noun Native tellurium, a metallic substance recently discovered.

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SYMBAL

SYMBAL. [See Cymbal.]

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SYMBOL

SYM'BOL, noun [Latin symbolum; Gr. with, and to throw; to compare.]1. The sign or representation of any moral thing by the images or properties of natural things. Thus the lion ...

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SYMBOLIC

SYMBOL'ICSYMBOL'ICAL, adjective Representative; exhibiting or expressing by resemblance or signs; as, the figure of an eye is symbolical of sight and knowledge. The ancients had...

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SYMBOLICAL

SYMBOL'ICAL, a. Representative; exhibiting or expressing by resemblance or signs; as, the figure of an eye is symbolical of sight and knowledge. The ancients had their symbolica...

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SYMBOLICALLY

SYMBOL'ICALLY, adverb By representation or resemblance of properties; by signs; typically. Courage is symbolically represented by a lion.