a. (sb.) Obs. Also 7 synoni-, sun- [f. SYNONYM sb. + -AL.] Synonymous.
1613. Jackson, Creed, II. xxx. § 19, margin. In matters of knowledge or belief, reason and cause are synonymall.
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.
1659. O. Walker, Instruct. Oratory, 95. Repetitions … and enlargements by synonymal words.
B. sb. A synonym.
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.
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.
Hence † Synonymally adv., synonymously.
1630. Spelman, De Sepult. (1641), 16. In this manner the fifth Canon either useth them [sc. ‘exact’ and ‘demand’] Synonimally, or [etc.].
