a. (sb.) Obs. Also 7 synoni-, sun- [f. SYNONYM sb. + -AL.] Synonymous.

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1613.  Jackson, Creed, II. xxx. § 19, margin. In matters of knowledge or belief, reason and cause are synonymall.

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1641.  H. L’Estrange, God’s Sabbath, 65. In its remotest latitude of signification it is synonymall with what Civilians call Jus Gentium, or the Law of Nations.

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1659.  O. Walker, Instruct. Oratory, 95. Repetitions … and enlargements by synonymal words.

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  B.  sb. A synonym.

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1662.  J. Chandler, Van Helmont’s Oriat., 191. The Fume of Minerals, by reason of its malignity, & an Arsenical poyson, have become Sunonymalls or things of one name: to wit, the Arsenick, and smoakie vapour, and smoak of Metalls fall together or agree in one.

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1688.  R. L’Estrange, Brief Hist. Times, III. 304. The Synonymals one upon the Neck of Another, savour more of the Skill of the Clark, then of the Faith of the Reporter.

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  Hence † Synonymally adv., synonymously.

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1630.  Spelman, De Sepult. (1641), 16. In this manner the fifth Canon either useth them [sc. ‘exact’ and ‘demand’] Synonimally, or [etc.].

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