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synchronic, a.|sɪnˈkrɒnɪk|
[f. late L. synchronus: see synchronal a. (n.) and -ic. Cf. F. synchronique.]
1. = synchronous 1, 1 b. rare.
1833Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Barrenness Mod. Art, At the interposition of the synchronic miracle. 1887A. Heilprin Distrib. Anim. ii. ii. 231 The want of synchronic correspondence..between..closely related assemblages of fossil remains.
2. = next, 2. rare.
1892Harper's Mag. Sept. 507 Whose many leaves showed light or dark, synchronic with the breeze.
3. Linguistics. [tr. F. synchronique (F. de Saussure a 1913, in Cours de linguistique générale (1916) iii. 117).] Pertaining to or designating a method of linguistic study concerned with the state of a language at one time, past or present; descriptive, as opposed to historical or diachronic. Also transf. in Anthropology, etc.
1922L. Bloomfield in Classical Weekly 13 Mar. 142/1 One is glad to see, therefore, that Dr. Sapir deals with synchronic matters (to use De Saussure's terminology) before he deals with diachronic. 1927, etc. [see diachronic a. 2]. 1937[see Saussurean a.]. 1946[see onomatopy]. 1954[see process n. 5 b]. 1968Jrnl. Assoc. Teachers of Russian XVII. 8 A synchronic study of a language studies the language of a particular period without reference to what went before or came after, and in practice the period in question is generally our own. 1975Listener 20 Mar. 367/3 Though the ‘synchronic’ approach of the semiologists is for the moment more fashionable, it is impossible not to be interested in the history of social myths. |