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Sense over syntax
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synesis
Word definitions for synesis in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Synesis \Syn"e*sis\, n. [Gr. ? intelligence.] (Gram.) A construction in which adherence to some element in the sense causes a departure from strict syntax, as in ``Philip went down to Samaria and preached Christ unto them.''
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context grammar English) A grammatical construction in which a word takes the gender or number not of the word with which it should regularly agree, but of some other implied word, as in: "If the band '''are''' popular, they will play next month." ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Synesis is a traditional grammatical/rhetorical term derived from Greek (originally meaning "unification, meeting, sense, conscience, insight, realization, mind, reason"). A constructio kata synesin (or constructio ad sensum in Latin ) means a grammatical ...
Usage examples of synesis.
Isolated by more than distance, it took little part in the politics of the World Federation, and after the Re-constitution, its role in the Synesis was slighter still.
Why had neither Federation nor Synesis ever managed to give Mars a boost over the threshold?
Why should the top authorities of the Federation, and later the Councillors of the Synesis, have minded?
The Synesis saw no urgency about developing one, after the theoretical possibility emerged.
But once the Centaurians had done the engineering, and passed their knowledge on to the Proserpinans, the Synesis must definitely have its own such craft.
If they like it there, we can begin dickering with the Synesis and whoever else might be concerned.
How then could she convince him that violence was not in the soul of the Synesis or its cyber-cosm?
We faced down some of the top trustees of the Synesis, and the cybercosm behind them, to acquire two old, unused torch ships at Earth and one moonjumper on Mars.
Foresters too were feeling alienated from the Synesis, hostile to its pervasiveness.
Even c-ships with nuclear warheads would be detectable in plenty of time to intercept And would the Synesis ever make war?
The Synesis yielded and made the transaction, quietly, and machines gave the Lahui the help to which they were entitled in refurbishing the old travelers.
Authoritative voices in the Synesis have frankly tried to persuade you to drop them.
Threedom, strengthen hostility elsewhere on Mars, and shake the Synesis on Earth.
The Synesis, confronted by general outrage and questioning, would have to make concessions, or more than concessions.
Without the moderating influence of the cybercosm, even the Synesis might be planning retaliation.