a. [ad. mod.L. syntacticus, ad. Gr. συντακτικός, f. συντάσσειν: see SYNTAX and -IC.] = SYNTACTICAL (the usual form).

1

1828–32.  Webster.

2

1848.  Dickens, Dombey, xi. The pursuit of stony-hearted verbs, savage noun-substantives, inflexible syntactic passages.

3

1852.  Blackie, Stud. Lang., 7. The grand fundamental types of verbal flexion, and syntactic dependence.

4

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.

5