Pl. -ata or -as. [mod.L., a. Gr. σύνταγμα, f. συντάσσειν (see SYNTAXIS).]

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  1.  A regular or orderly collection of statements, propositions, doctrines, etc.; a systematically arranged treatise.

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1644.  Milton, Areop. (Arb.), 67. All must be supprest which is not found in their Syntagma.

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1825.  Coleridge, Aids Refl., vii. 198. The Gospel is not a system of Theology, nor a Syntagma of theoretical propositions and conclusions.

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  2.  Antiq. a. A body of persons forming a division of the population of a country. b. A body of troops forming a division of a phalanx.

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1813.  Prichard, Phys. Hist. Man, vii. § 2. 333. Diodorus Siculus tells us, that ‘besides the priests and military cast, the state [in Egypt] is divided into three syntagmata,… The Herdsmen…. The Agriculturists…. The Artisans.’

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1856.  Grote, Greece, II. xcii. XII. 81. Among these divisions … is the Syntagma, which contained sixteen Lochi.

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  3.  Bot. An aggregate of ‘tagmata’: see TAGMA.

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1885.  [see TAGMA].

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