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‖ synderesis Obs. Also 5 synderesys, 6 sinderesis, 6–7 synderisis, 7 synth-, sintheresis. [med.L. synderesis, repr. med. (and mod.) Gr. pron. of συντήρησις synteresis. Cf. F. syndérèse, † sinderese, It. sinderesi, Sp. sindéresis, Pg. synderesis.] = synteresis.
c1400Pilgr. Sowle i. xviii. (1859) 19 [Sathanas loq.] Come forth, thou foule Synderesys, and say what thou knowest of this fals pilgrym. c1420? Lydg. Assembly of Gods 937 Macrocosme was the name of the felde..In the myddes therof stood Conscience... Synderesys sate hym withyn closyd as in a parke, With hys tables in hys hand her dedys to marke. 1426― De Guil. Pilgr. 4963 Synderesys..Ys as myche for to seyn,..The hiher party of Resoun; Wherby A man shal best discerne Hys conscience to governe. 1531Dial. on Laws Eng. i. xiii. 31 Sinderesis is a naturall power of the soule sette in the hyghest parte therof, mouynge and sterrynge it to good, & abhorrynge euyll. 1598Marston Sat. iii. viii. Poems (1879) 172 Returne, returne sacred Synderesis, Inspire our truncks. 1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. iii. iv, The soules Synderisis. 1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 271 Some sparks of Synderesis, and the lawes of reason. 1603Dekker & Chettle Grissil iii. ii, I thought (by the Syntheresis of my soule) I had not been imperished. 1651J. F[reake] tr. Agrippa's Occ. Philos. i. lxii. 140 When they [sc. passions of the soul] follow the Intellectual apprehension,..they are called intellectuall passions, or synderesis. b. Remorse or prick of conscience. (Cf. F. syndérèse.)
1639N. N. tr. Du Bosq's Compl. Woman i. 39 It is no great priviledg to be exempt from care or unquietnes, as unto stones to be free from maladies, and beasts from a feeling of Synderesis. 1651Howell Venice 183 Being perswaded to a moderation of life by that Synedresis [sic], that touch of conscience, which coms somtimes by nature. Hence † synˈderesize |sɪnd-| v. trans., to make conscientious; to discharge conscientiously.
1600Tourneur Transf. Metam. xxxvi. Wks. 1878 II. 202 Pull off their golden maske, And bid them strait sinderesize their taske. |