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syncategorem Logic.|sɪnˈkætɪgərɛm|
Also 7 -eme.
[ad. med.L. syncatēgorēma (Thomas Aquinas), a. Gr. συγκατηγόρηµα, f. συγκατηγορεῖν (in Logic) to predicate jointly: cf. syn-1 and categorem.]
A word which cannot be used by itself as a term, but only in conjunction with another word or words: e.g. a sign of quantity (as all, some, no), or an adverb, preposition, or conjunction.
1653R. Baillie Dissuas. Vind. (1655) 62 Are not diverse universall propositions even with the Syncatagorem of universalitie of an indefinite nature and sense, which admit the exception of some particulars? 1697tr. Burgersdicius' Logic i. xxix. 116 The Syncategoremes or consignificative Terms..that signifie nothing of themselves but when join'd to other Words, as every one, all, all that, &c. |