Crossword clues for synergism
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Synergy \Syn"er*gy\, n. [Gr. ?. See Synergetic.] 2. Combined action; especially (Med.), the combined healthy action of every organ of a particular system; as, the digestive synergy.
2. An effect of the interaction of the actions of two agents such that the result of the combined action is greater than expected as a simple additive combination of the two agents acting separately; -- also called synergism.. Opposite to antagonism.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "theological doctrine that human will cooperates with divine grace in regeneration" (implying that the fall did not cost the soul all inclination toward holiness), from Modern Latin synergismus, from Greek synergos "working together" (see synergy). Used in non-theological sense "a working together, cooperation" by 1910 (first of medicines).
Wiktionary
n. 1 synergy 2 The theological doctrine that one's salvation is brought about by a combination of human will and divine grace
WordNet
n. the working together of two things (muscles or drugs for example) to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects [syn: synergy]
the theological doctrine that salvation results from the interaction of human will and divine grace
Wikipedia
In theology, synergism is the position of those who hold that salvation involves some form of cooperation between divine grace and human freedom. It stands opposed to monergism, a doctrine most commonly associated with the Lutheran and Reformed Protestant traditions, whose soteriologies have been strongly influenced by the North African bishop and Latin Church Father Augustine of Hippo (354–430). Synergism is upheld by the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches, and by the Methodist and Pentecostal traditions of Protestantism. It is an integral part of Arminian theology.
Usage examples of "synergism".
We crackle with cancers, we fizz with synergisms, under the furious and birdless sky.
This evening the client, a matrix working in the field of biological synergism, had obsessed on an elaborate array of biosyn statistics.
She understood how a few relatively minor errors and problems, with a sort of negative synergism, could easily bring a whole program to a grinding halt.
It is possible to imagine nuclear synergisms multiplying into eternity, popping and crackling away, inimical to life even when there is nothing left to be inimical to.
The synergisms of Project Star Flight are interesting in and of themselves.
We crackle with cancers, we fizz with synergisms, under the furious and birdless sky.