[In sense 1, f. med.L. syndicāt-, pa. ppl. stem of syndicāre (see SYNDIC v.). In other senses, f. prec.]
† 1. trans. To judge, censure. Obs.
1610. Donne, Pseudo-Martyr, 154. Not how hee shall iudge quicke and dead at his second coming, but how his Vicar shall inquire, Examine, Syndicate, Sentence, Depose: yea, Murder Princes on earth.
1627. Hakewill, Apol., IV. ii. § 4. 290. Aristotle … vndertooke to censure & syndicate both his Master, and all other Law-makers before him.
1641. Marcombes, in Lismore Papers, Ser. II. (1888), IV. 203. Those that haue but mediocre [employments] are soe much obserued and Syndicated.
1822. Mrs. Nathan, Langreath, III. 299. Would that I had to syndicate her oppressors!
2. To control, manage, or effect by a syndicate; esp. to publish simultaneously in a number of periodicals (see SYNDICATE sb. 3).
1882. Pall Mall G., 29 Nov., 5/2. Government loans … are all ‘syndicated’—deposited, that is, in the strong boxes of the finance houses interested in their success. Ibid. (1889), 20 Feb., 6/2. Mr. W. F. Tillotson … first acclimatized in this country the American system of ‘syndicating’ fiction.
1891. ‘Max O’Rell,’ Frenchm. in Amer., 240. Dr. Talmage syndicates his sermons, and they are published in Monday’s newspapers in all quarters of America.
1892. Daily News, 13 Feb., 7/2. It is probable that the issue is only syndicated.
3. To combine into a syndicate.
1889. Pall Mall G., 3 May, 2/1. To underwrite,… syndicate, or otherwise provide working capital for bona fide mining companies.
1892. [see syndicated below].
1916. Q. Rev., Oct., 539. A mortgage by bonds, which the bank … will probably share with other banks with whom it is syndicated.
Hence Syndicated ppl. a., Syndicating vbl. sb.
a. 1693. Urquhart’s Rabelais, III. xxvi. 215. Syndicated cock [orig. syndicqué].
1886. Tinsley’s Mag., July, 52. There is time-bargain syndicating for those who prefer a modern road to ruin.
1889. E. M. Clerke, in Dublin Rev., April, 367. The conditions of trade in the United States under the syndicated system.
1892. Daily News, 24 Feb., 4/8. Ouida … has lashed out against agents, syndicates, and the syndicated.
1892. Times, 14 Oct., 7/2. The proportion of syndicated or, as we should say, of union workmen in France does not exceed six or seven per cent. of the whole.
1893. S. S. Sprigge, in Athenæum, 5 Aug., 193/1. Mr. Colles explained the principles of the syndicating of literary material.
