a. [f. prec.: see -ISTIC and cf. mod.L. syncrētisticus (Calovius, 1682).] Belonging to, or having the character of, a syncretist or syncretists; relating to, or characterized by, syncretism. So Syncretistical a.
1764. Maclaine, trans. Mosheim’s Eccl. Hist., Cent. XVII. II. II. i. § 21, margin. The rise of the Syncretistical or Calixtine controversies.
1828. Pusey, Hist. Enq., I. 57. The signal for the Syncretistic controversy given by Buscher in his work against Calixtus.
1833. J. H. Newman, Arians, I. iv. (1876), 115. Zenobia … succeeded Alexander in her … attachment to the syncretistic philosophy.
1841. Fraser’s Mag., XXIII. 145. A set of syncretistic legislators.
1864. C. W. King, Gnostics, 68. The syncretistic sects that had sprung up in Alexandria.
1914. Patrick, Clement of Alexandria, i. 4. A like syncretistic tendency was exhibited in Gnosticism.
