a. [f. SYNCHRONISM: see -ISTIC.] Belonging to synchronism; relating to or exhibiting the concurrence of events in time; also loosely, involving synchronism, synchronous, simultaneous. So Synchronistical a., now rare or Obs., in same sense; hence Synchronistically adv., in accordance with synchronism; loosely, synchronously.
1685. H. More, Illustration, etc. Y j b. Schemes for the more easie understanding, and retaining in memory the *synchronistick order of the Visions of the Apocalypse. Ibid., Z ij b. The general Synchronistick Table of the Visions of that Book.
1828. [see symphronistic, SYM-].
1854. Thirlwall, Lett. (1881), I. 205. The comparative shortness of the interval … considerably increases the difficulty of the synchronistic view.
1876. S. Birch, Rede Lect., 16. The exact definition of three synchronistic events, the rising of the star, and of the Nile, and the commencement of the normal year of 3651/4 days.
1888. A. C. Jennings (title), Chronological Tables. A synchronistic arrangement of the events of ancient history.
c. 1624. Mede, Wks. (1672), 583. I was once wonderfully pleased with that Opinion…: But now at length the Law of *Synchronistical necessity hath beat me from it.
1685. H. More, Refl. Baxter, 5. Without this Synchronistical Skill … to pretend to understand the Apocalypse,… is as fond [etc.].
1860. M. Pattison, Ess. (1889), I. 165. Eusebius … undertook a synchronistical compilation of the annals of all known nations.
1684. H. More, Answ., 56. The difficult Visions … should … be referred *Synchronistically to that Prophecy also.
1835. (title) Annales Antiquitatis. Chronological Tables of Ancient History Synchronistically and Ethnographically arranged.
1878. Zerffi, Pre-Adamites, 9. We are thus able to trace long periods of an old stone age, a new stone age, and a bronze age, till synchronistically with the historical period we reach the iron age.
