synchronisticadj.

1685 H. More Illustr. Daniel & Revelation sig. Yj^v Schemes for the more easie understanding, and retaining in memory the synchronistick order of the Visions of the Apocalypse.

1685 H. More Illustr. Daniel & Revelation Z ij b The general Synchronistick Table of the Visions of that Book.

1827 T. Carlyle tr. J. W. von Goethe Wilhelm Meister's Trav. in German Romance IV. 145 Another series of..occurrences, not so much of a synchronistic, as of a symphronistic kind.

1854 C. Thirlwall Lett. (1881) I. 205 The comparative shortness of the interval..considerably increases the difficulty of the synchronistic view.

1876 S. Birch Rede Lect. Egypt 16 The exact definition of three synchronistic events, the rising of the star, and of the Nile, and the commencement of the normal year of 365¼ days.

1888 A. C. Jennings (title) Chronological Tables. A synchronistic arrangement of the events of ancient history.

1937 J. Orr tr. I. Iordan Introd. Romance Linguistics 284 Internal linguistics is static or synchronistic.

1949 Archivum Linguisticum 1 127 On the synchronistic plane, homonymy seems..to preclude the existence of any intrinsic link between form and meaning.

1951 S. D. Ullmann Princ. Semantics i. 36 It is not language that is synchronistic or diachronistic, but the approach to it, the method of investigation, the science of language.

1962 L. J. Cohen Diversity of Meaning i. 12 Synchronistic and diachronistic enquiries—studies of a single period and studies through several periods, respectively—can and should complement each other.

1955 R. F. C. Hull tr. Jung & Pauli's Interpretation of Nature & Psyche i. 40 Synchronistic events rest on the simultaneous occurrence of two different psychic states.

1972 A. Koestler Roots of Coincidence iii. 95 Thus precognitive experiences are ‘evidently synchronistic..since they are experienced as psychic images in the present as though the objective event already existed’.

1979 G. Adler Dynamics of Self 10 Synchronistic phenomena, and in particular those of ESP, convinced Jung of the existence of a transcendental ‘absolute knowledge’.

c1624 J. Mede Wks. (1672) 583 I was once wonderfully pleased with that Opinion..: But now at length the Law of Synchronistical necessity hath beat me from it.

1685 H. More Cursory Refl. 5 Without this Synchronistical Skill..to pretend to understand the Apocalypse,..is as fond [etc.].

1860 M. Pattison in Q. Rev. 108 58 Eusebius..undertook a synchronistical compilation of the annals of all known nations.

1684 S. E. Answer Remarks upon Dr. H. More 56 The difficult Visions..should..be referred Synchronistically to that Prophecy also.

1835 (title) Annales Antiquitatis. Chronological Tables of Ancient History Synchronistically and Ethnographically arranged.

1878 G. G. Zerffi Pre-Adamites 9 We are thus able to trace long periods of an old stone age, a new stone age, and a bronze age, till synchronistically with the historical period we reach the iron age.

1949 Archivum Linguisticum 1 128 Is there any intrinsic and synchronistically valid reason for it [sc. a name] to have that form and no other?

1980 C. Fitz Gibbon Rat Report vi. 112 My communication reaches you synchronistically at the same time as all the other rat reports which have been sent out every five hundred years.