syncategorematicadj.

1826 R. Whately Elements Logic 339 Syncategorematic words..are such as cannot singly express a Term, but only a part of a Term.

1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic I. i. ii. §2.

1870 W. S. Jevons Elem. Lessons Logic iii. 18.

1931 W. Worster tr. J. Jørgensen Treat. Formal Logic III. xiii. 239 The word ‘and’ is syncategorematic or synsemantic. It may however, also occur as categorematic or autosemantic, as..in the assertion: ‘“And” is a conjunction.’

1957 G. Ryle in M. Black Importance of Lang. (1962) 159 This is what Mill had said of the syncategorematic words.

1966 J. J. Katz Philos. Lang. v. 312 Since the meaning of ‘good’ cannot stand alone as a complete concept, we shall say that the meaning of ‘good’ is syncategorematic.

1972 Language 48 351 Syncategorematic features such as abrupt/non-abrupt and strident/mellow... By this term I mean features which necessarily occur only in conjunction with certain other features. Besides the abrupt/continuant vs. strident/mellow example, voiced/voiceless vs. tense/lax appear to be syncategorematic, as do compact/non~compact vs. diffuse/non-diffuse in vowels.

1975 Language 51 32 Russell's contextual or syncategorematic definition of definite descriptions is equivalent to the conjunction of three propositions, one of which embodies a uniqueness claim.