a. [ad. mod.L. syntacticus, ad. Gr. συντακτικός, f. συντάσσειν: see SYNTAX and -IC.] = SYNTACTICAL (the usual form).
1828–32. Webster.
1848. Dickens, Dombey, xi. The pursuit of stony-hearted verbs, savage noun-substantives, inflexible syntactic passages.
1852. Blackie, Stud. Lang., 7. The grand fundamental types of verbal flexion, and syntactic dependence.
1902. F. E. Clements, in Univ. Studies Nebraska, III. 19. Syntactic composition is the union under a single accent of two words, one being merely a modifier of the other and in the case demanded by this relation.
