v. [f. SYNTHES(IS + -IZE. The correct form is SYNTHETIZE.] trans. To make a synthesis of; to put together or combine into a complex whole; to make up by combination of parts or elements. Also absol. (Opposed to ANALYSE.)
1830. Fraser’s Mag., II. 393. To analyze is a far easier task than to synthesize.
1851. Mrs. Browning, Casa Guidi Wind., I. 813. Soon this leader … will … build the golden pipes and synthesize This people-organ for a holy strain.
1873. Symonds, Grk. Poets, i. 9. That Homer had no predecessors … no well-digested body of myths to synthesize, is an absurd hypothesis.
1874. Mivart, in Contemp. Rev., Oct., 793. A Philosophy which as a complement unites in one all other systems, will harmonize with a Religion which as a complement synthesises all other Religions. Ibid. (1889), Truth, 157. Movements may be synthesized without our will.
b. Chem. To produce (compound, esp. an organic compound) by synthesis.
1865. [see synthesized below].
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., IV. 316. The kidney is capable of synthesising complex organic substances.
Hence Synthesized ppl. a., Synthesizing vbl. sb. and ppl. a., also Synthesizer, one who or that which synthesizes.
1830. Fraser’s Mag., II. 393. Experience … is nothing but a continual synthesizing or apprehensions.
1865. Reader, 8 July, 31. The synthesized acids of the lactic series.
1869. Contemp. Rev., X. 287. The competent synthesizer, designer,… theorist.
1878. T. Sinclair, Mount, 30. The synthesising spirit of infinite love in chosen souls alone can create.
1909. Cent. Dict., Supp., Synthesizer, in acoustics, an instrument for the production of complex tones of predetermined composition.
