a. [ad. late L. syntēcticus consumptive, a. Gr. συντηκτικός liquefying, liquefiable, apt to faint, f. σύν SYN- + τήκειν to melt.]
† 1. Path. Having the quality of melting or dissolving: applied to certain wasting diseases. Obs.
1651. Wittie, trans. Primrose’s Pop. Err., II. 90. Those … doe appeare in malignant and burning feavers, which we call syntecticke feavers, seldome in a consumption and hecticke, in which no such melting doth appeare.
1656. J. Smith, Pract. Physick, 83. Inflammation of the bowels, whence followeth a Syntectick or melting flux.
2. (See quot.)
1908. R. A. Daly, in Amer. Jrnl. Sci., July, 19. The sunken blocks must be dissolved in the depths of the original fluid, magmatic body, with the formation of a ‘syntectic,’ secondary magma. [Note.] This … name for a magma rendered compound by assimilation or by the mixture of melts, has been proposed by F. Loewinson-Lessing.
So † Syntectical a. rare–0.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Syntectical … that sounds [= swoons] often, that is weak or brought low.
