a. rare. [ad. Gr. συμφυτικός, f. συμφύειν to make to grow together, f. σύν SYM- + φυ- to grow.] Formed by or involving coalescence or fusion of two parts or elements. Hence Symphytically adv., in the way of such coalescence or fusion; so Symphytism, (tendency to) such coalescence or fusion; Symphytize v., intr. to become fused, to coalesce.
1871. Earle, Philol. Engl. Tongue, v. 220. Symbolic words are marked by a … tendency to attach themselves to other words;… this tendency … we will … call … symphytism. Ibid., 223. The tendency to a symphytic coalition. Ibid., viii. 408. A tendency to symphytise again once more with the word which they have already absorbed. Ibid., 417. The … adverb at one time attached itself closely to the verb, indeed almost symphytically. Ibid., ix. 445. Conjunctions formed by the symphytism of a preposition with a noun, as in … belike.
1900. B. D. Jackson, Gloss. Bot. Terms, Symphytic, formed by fusion of several nuclei, as a gameto-nucleus.
