synthesisn.

1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Kk5^v A Sciographie of sacred Theologie according to the three formes of methode, synthesis, analysis, and definition.

1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum iv. ii. 295 Method, is either contextiue, or retextiue. The contextiue is also called Synthesis, or Syntheticall Method.

1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. iii. xx. 230 Synthesis is Ratiocination from the first causes of the Construction, continued through all the middle causes till we come to the thing it selfe which is constructed or generated.

1702 J. Raphson Math. Dict. 27 Synthesis or Composition is the Art of searching the Truth or Demonstration, the Possibility or Impossibility of a Proposition, by reasons drawn from Principles, that is by Propositions which demonstrate one another, beginning from the most simple, and so going on to more general and compounded ones,..till at length you arrive to the last Proposition designed, or Conclusion which is the thing to be demonstrated.

1718 I. Newton Opticks (ed. 2) iii. i. 380 The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discover'd, and establish'd as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them.

1911 Case in Encycl. Brit. XVI. 892/1 Deduction is analysis when it is regressive from consequence to real ground... Deduction is synthesis when it is progressive from real ground to consequence.

1896 J. M. E. McTaggart Stud. in Hegelian Dialectic i. 2 This idea of the synthesis of opposites is perhaps the most characteristic in the whole of Hegel's system. It is certainly one of the most difficult to explain.

1904 N. I. Stone tr. K. Marx Contrib. Critique Pol. Econ. 288 The two systems by mutually modifying each other may result in something new, a synthesis (which partly resulted from the Germanic conquests). In all of these conquests the method of production..determines the nature of the new distribution which comes into play.

1936 S. Hook From Hegel to Marx i. 68 A dialectical synthesis is all this and more. Thesis and antithesis are resolved in such a way that..aspects of each are retained or conserved in every new whole or situation; and are reinterpreted or elevated.

1936 S. Hook From Hegel to Marx i. 68 For Marx..the manner of synthesis depends..upon the shifts and realignments of human interests in time.

1958 P. Heath tr. G. A. Wetter Dialectical Materialism i. i. 4 This third phase then figures in turn as the first step in a new dialectical process, leading to a new synthesis.

1963 F. C. Copleston Hist. Philos. VII. ix. 177 We have used the word ‘synthesis’ for the moment of identity-in-difference in the dialectical advance. But..the terms ‘thesis’, ‘antithesis’ and ‘synthesis’ are more characteristic of Fichte than of Hegel.

1978 P. S. Falla tr. Kolakowski Main Currents Marxism I. vii. 152 As private property develops it necessarily creates its own antagonist; this negative force is itself dehumanized, and as its dehumanization progresses it becomes the precondition of a synthesis that will abolish the existing opposition together with both its terms.

?1734 P. Shaw Chem. Lect. ix. sig. N2 We have seen that..a true Resolution and Recomposition are practicable; and as Chemistry improves, the Business of Analysis and Synthesis must likewise improve.

1859 J. A. Wanklyn in Proc. Royal Soc. 10 4 On the synthesis of acetic acid.

1869 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. (new ed.) xxx. 299 Alcohol can also be prepared from its elements by synthesis.

1876 tr. P. Schützenberger On Fermentation 6 M. Berthelot..made the first successful attempt to perform organic syntheses.

1880 Med. Temp. Jrnl. 62 The protoplasm of those cells whose function lies in chemical synthesis.

1869 J. Tyndall Notes on Light §263 In reblending the constituent colours, so as to produce the original, we illustrate, by synthesis, the composition of white light.

1879 G. B. Prescott Speaking Telephone (new ed.) 51 Helmholtz had not only analyzed the vowel sounds into their constituent musical elements, but had actually performed the synthesis of them.

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 208 The happiest synthesis of the divine, the scholar, and the gentleman was..exhibited in him.

1842 E. B. Barrett Bk. Poets in Athenæum 25 June 559/2 Disclosing from the analysis of the visible things, the synthesis or unity of the ideal.

1850 E. B. Browning tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 160 I..devised for them Number, the inducer of philosophies, The synthesis of Letters, and..Memory.

1855 R. Browning Cleon 94 Mankind, made up of all the single men,—In such a synthesis the labour ends.

1855 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. ii. xxi. 302 To remember that what in the infant is an elaborate synthesis, afterwards becomes an instantaneous..cognition.

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) I. vi. 100 By synthesis..I view the parts in relation to each other, and, finally to the whole..; I reconstruct them.

1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic i. 20 The synthesis of their common Elements into one Concept.

1887 G. T. Ladd Elem. Physiol. Psychol. ii. vi. 388 (note) The word ‘synthesis’ for this mental activity is employed and defended by Wundt..who..objects to the word ‘association’. [For preceding context see synthetic adj. 5a.]

1865 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Rationalism I. ii. 183 A system which would unite in one sublime synthesis all the past forms of human belief.

1870 J. H. Newman Ess. Gram. Assent i. iii. 31 We fancy that we are doing justice to individual men and things by making them a mere synthesis of qualities.

1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity II. 100 The Christian life is the synthesis of these Divine graces.

1870 F. W. Farrar Families of Speech ii. 62 The immense victory which has been achieved by the Aryan race, in adopting inflectional synthesis as the basis of their grammatical structure.