Obs. [ad. mod.L. syntagma: see next.] = next, 1. In quots. 1621, 1633, 1675, referring to works entitled Syntagma or Syntagmata.
1621. Bp. Mountagu, Diatribæ, 77. In all his [sc. Selden’s] Syntagmes, he loueth not to tread or goe in common paths.
1633. Ames, Agst. Cerem., I. 149. Polanus writt his partitions [i.e., Partitiones Theologicæ], when he was a young man, and divine, but his Syntagme was his last work.
1658. Phillips, Syntagme, an ordering, disposing, or placing of things together.
1672. Marvell, Reh. Transp., I. 7. A bulky Dutchman … contriving those innumerable Syntagmes of Alphabets.
1673. [R. Leigh], Transpr. Rehears’d, 107. This is the Syntagm of Calvin’s Divinity, and System of our Authors Policy.
1675. J. Smith, Chr. Relig. Appeal, IV. 43. A Romance hansomly exprest by Peter Rhenensis, as he is quoted by Mr. Selden in his Syntagme de aureo vitulo.
