a. [ad. late L. synodicus, a. late Gr. συνοδικός (both in sense 2), f. σύνοδος SYNOD.]
1. Eccl. = SYNODAL a.
1640. R. Baillie, Canterb. Self-convict., Postscr. 16. When the Assemblie of Glasgow had passed this tryall upon them according to our desire, we embraced the Synodick Sentence.
1659. Pearson, Creed, ii. 282, note. They charge all those to whom they write that Synodic Epistle, that they should be satisfied with such expressions as they found in the Scriptures.
1835. I. Taylor, Spir. Despot., v. 210. The synodic system … is … named as a principal cause … of the Spiritual Despotism which … grasped the Christian world.
2. Astron. = next, 2.
1654. T. Whalley, in Ussher’s Lett. (1686), 603. A Mean Synodick Month.
1694. W. Holder, On Time, i. 11. The Synodic Revolution of the Moon, by which the Month is measured.
1788. Phil. Trans., LXXVIII. 419. The lunar month, or mean synodic revolution,… consists of 29 days, 12 hours, and 792 scruples or parts in 1080; and the year of 354 days, 8 hours, and 864 scruples.
1834. Mrs. Somerville, Connex. Phys. Sci., v. 29. The synodic motions of the satellites.
1875. Tait, in Gd. Words, 238. This is the sidereal period of the moon’s revolution; not the synodic period, as the time from new moon to new moon is called.
