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syncretistic, a.|sɪŋkrɪˈtɪstɪk| [f. prec.: see -istic and cf. mod.L. syncrētisticus (Calovius 1682).] Belonging to, or having the character of, a syncretist or syncretists; relating to, or characterized by, syncretism. Also = syncretic a. 2. So syncreˈtistical a.
1764A. Maclaine tr. Mosheim's Eccl. Hist. Cent. xvii. ii. ii. i. §21 margin, The rise of the Syncretistical or Calixtine controversies. 1828Pusey Hist. Enq. i. 57 The signal for the Syncretistic controversy given by Buscher in his work against Calixtus. 1833J. H. Newman Arians i. iv. (1876) 115 Zenobia..succeeded Alexander in her..attachment to the syncretistic philosophy. 1841Fraser's Mag. XXIII. 145 A set of syncretistic legislators. 1864C. W. King Gnostics 68 The syncretistic sects that had sprung up in Alexandria. 1914Patrick Clement of Alexandria i. 4 A like syncretistic tendency was exhibited in Gnosticism. 1926M. Warden tr. Piaget's Lang. & Thought of Child iv. 132 To this childish form of perception M. Claparède has given the name of syncretistic perceptions, using the name chosen by Renan to denote that first ‘wide and comprehensive but obscure and inaccurate’ activity of the spirit where ‘no distinction is made and things are heaped one upon the other’. 1976S. Arieti Creativity ix. 195 The artist or viewer has a syncretistic grasp of the total object. He abandons precise visualization and experiences an unclear vision of the whole. |