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syllabus|ˈsɪləbəs|
Pl. syllabi |ˈsɪləbaɪ| or syllabuses |ˈsɪləbəsɪz|.
[mod.L. syllabus, usually referred to an alleged Gr. σύλλαβος. Syllabus appears to be founded on a corrupt reading syllabos in some early printed editions—the Medicean MS. has sillabos—of Cicero Epp. ad Atticum iv. iv, where the reading indicated as correct by comparison with the MS. readings in iv. v. and viii. is sittybas or Gr. σιττύβας, acc. pl. of sittyba, σιττύβα parchment label or title-slip on a book. (Cf. Tyrrell and Purser Correspondence of Cicero nos. 107, 108, 112, Comm. and Adnot. Crit.) Syllabos was græcized by later editors as συλλάβους, from which a spurious σύλλαβος was deduced and treated as a derivative of συλλαµβάνειν to put together, collect (cf. syllable).
In the passage from S. Augustine's Confessions xiii. xv. (‘ibi legunt [sc. angeli] sine syllabis temporum quid velit aeterna voluntas tua’) commonly adduced as further evidence of L. syllabus, the word is clearly syllaba syllable.]
1. a. A concise statement or table of the heads of a discourse, the contents of a treatise, the subjects of a series of lectures, etc.; a compendium, abstract, summary, epitome.
1656Blount Glossogr., Syllabus, a Table or Index in a Book, to shew places or matter by Letters or Figures. 1667Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. (ed. 4) i. vi. §22. 160 The Apostle expresses it still by Synonyma's, Tasting of the heavenly gift, and made partakers of the holy Ghost..; all which also are a syllabus or collection of the several effects of the graces bestowed in Baptism. 1775T. Sheridan Art Reading 11 The first article in the syllabus, entitled, A scheme of the vowels. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 526 Presenting to the students a compend or syllabus of their lectures. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. i, Syllabus of lectures. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) I. 123 He preached with as much fluency as ever.., with nothing more than a syllabus of his discourse before him. 1881Southern Law Rev. (St. Louis, Missouri) VII. 298 Among these duties [of the official reporter of a Court] is the preparation of syllabi of all decisions. 1886Athenæum 2 Oct. 431/1 The ‘Retrospections’ should have been furnished..with a copious syllabus or list of contents.
b. spec. a statement of the subjects covered by a course of instruction or by an examination, in a school, college, etc.; a programme of study.
1889Rep. Higher Educ. in London p. ix, in Parl. Papers (C. 5709) XXXIX. 323 The colleges having no locus standi to make representations to the authorities of the university either as to the settlement or alteration of the ‘syllabus’ by which the course of the examinations is regulated. 1955E. Blishen Roaring Boys iii. 117 The history syllabus for the school had been drawn up by Mr Benson. 1972Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 1 Dec. 15 Schools should allow pupils to determine syllabi.
c. fig.
1938Auden Commentary in Journey to War (1939) 290 And the young emerging from the closed parental circle, to whose uncertainty the certain years present their syllabus of limitless anxiety and labour.
2. (With capital initial.) R.C. Ch. A summary statement of points decided and errors condemned by ecclesiastical authority; spec. that annexed to the encyclical Quanta cura of Pope Pius IX, 8 Dec. 1864.
1876B. Martin Messiah's Kingdom v. i. 229 The right of the Pope to depose princes..is reaffirmed in the Syllabus. 1907Edin. Rev. Oct. 416 The Syllabus is a voice speaking in a dead language from a dead world. |