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Definition of Syncretistical

1. Adjective. Relating to a historical tendency for a language to reduce its use of inflections. "Modern English is a syncretic language"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Syncretistical

Literary usage of Syncretistical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Review (1852)
"It has remained so ever since, and the clergy are besides by their official oath, since the time of the syncretistical con- ..."

2. Pietism and Methodism: Or, the Significance of German Pietism in the Origin by Arthur Wilford Nagler (1918)
"However, his syncretistical plans to simplify and remedy the dogmatic system came to naught. The mystical reaction included speculative and practical ..."

3. An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ, to by Johann Lorenz Mosheim, Archibald Maclaine (1819)
"... Michael, endeavours to raise the credit of Mysticism, by his panegyric on Dionysius in ix cent. ii. 330. syncretistical ..."

4. The English Review (1852)
"It has remained so ever since, and the clergy are besides by their official oath, since the time of the syncretistical con- ..."

5. Pietism and Methodism: Or, the Significance of German Pietism in the Origin by Arthur Wilford Nagler (1918)
"However, his syncretistical plans to simplify and remedy the dogmatic system came to naught. The mystical reaction included speculative and practical ..."

6. An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ, to by Johann Lorenz Mosheim, Archibald Maclaine (1819)
"... Michael, endeavours to raise the credit of Mysticism, by his panegyric on Dionysius in ix cent. ii. 330. syncretistical ..."

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