nonce-wd. [f. SYNCOPE + -IST.] One who syncopates a word; spec. one who omits vowels or other letters, esp. in proper names or titles, and supplies their places with dashes, dots, or asterisks, as in satirical writing.
1714. Addison, Spect., No. 567, ¶ 8. In order to outshine all this modern Race of Syncopists,… I intend shortly to publish a Spectator that shall not have a single Vowel in it.
So Syncopism, the practice of so writing a word, or a word so written.
In recent Dicts.
