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syntectic, a.|sɪnˈtɛktɪk| [ad. late L. syntēcticus consumptive, a. Gr. συντηκτικός liquefying, liquefiable, apt to faint, f. σύν syn-1 + τήκειν to melt.] †1. Path. Having the quality of melting or dissolving: applied to certain wasting diseases. Obs.
1651Wittie tr. Primrose's Pop. Err. ii. 90 Those..doe appeare in malignant and burning feavers, which we call syntecticke feavers, seldome in a consumption and hecticke, in which no such melting doth appeare. 1656J. Smith Pract. Physick 83 Inflammation of the bowels, whence followeth a Syntectick or melting flux. 2. (See quot.)
1908R. A. Daly in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. July 19 The sunken blocks must be dissolved in the depths of the original fluid, magmatic body, with the formation of a ‘syntectic’, secondary magma. [Note.] This name..for a magma rendered compound by assimilation or by the mixture of melts, has been proposed by F. Loewinson-Lessing. So † syntectical a. rare—0.
1656Blount Glossogr., Syntectical..that sounds [= swoons] often, that is weak or brought low. |