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symphytic, a. rare.|sɪmˈfɪtɪk|
[ad. Gr. συµϕυτικός, f. συµϕύειν to make to grow together, f. σύν sym- + ϕύειν to grow.]
Formed by or involving coalescence or fusion of two parts or elements. Hence symˈphytically adv., in the way of such coalescence or fusion; so ˈsymphytism, (tendency to) such coalescence or fusion; ˈsymphytize v., intr. to become fused, to coalesce.
1871Earle Philol. Engl. Tongue v. 220 Symbolic words are marked by a..tendency to attach themselves to other words;..this tendency..we will..call..symphytism. Ibid. 223 The tendency to a symphytic coalition. Ibid. viii. 408 A tendency to symphytise again once more with the word which they have already absorbed. Ibid. 417 The..adverb at one time attached itself closely to the verb, indeed almost symphytically. Ibid. ix. 445 Conjunctions formed by the symphytism of a preposition with a noun, as in..belike. 1900B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms, Symphytic, formed by fusion of several nuclei, as a gameto-nucleus. |