sb. and a. [f. next + -AN.] a. sb. A member of a synedrion; see also quot. 1606. b. adj. Of or belonging to a synedrion.
1606. T. Whetenhall, Disc. Abuses Ch. Christ, 119. [They] call them that desire to have restored againe the auncient order of Parish Synedries, Consistories, or Presbyteries … by the nick names of Synedrians, Consistorians, and Puritans.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., s.v. Sanhedrim, Synedrians (synedri) are the Counsellors, Judges, or Members of that Court.
1808. Mitford, Hist. Greece, xxxix. § 4. IV. 448. The Synedrians, resident deputies of the subject states,… met to take the matter into consideration. Ibid., 449. It was not probably the purpose of Chares and Demosthenes to injure or offend the Synedrian allies.
