a. Obs. [Formed as prec. + -ICAL.] = prec.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., VI. i. 276. The Jewes … in their copies expunged the word [Hebrew] or Syncategorematicall terme omnis.
a. 1670. Hacket, Abp. Williams, I. (1693), 76. A cluster of most crabbed Notions, pick’d up out of Metaphysics and Logic, as Categorematical, and Syncategorematical.
1701. Norris, Ideal World, I. vi. 84. A kind of syncategorematical term, such as is not significative by itself.
Hence † Syncategorematically adv.
1600. W. Watson, Decacordon (1602), 30. This Elenchiall fallacy (for he will not dare stand syncategorematically to approue it) denies flatly free-will.
