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synchronistic, a.|sɪŋkrəˈnɪstɪk|
[f. synchronism: see -istic.]
1. Belonging to synchronism; relating to or exhibiting the concurrence of events in time; also loosely, involving synchronism, synchronous, simultaneous.
1685H. More Illustration, etc. Y j b, Schemes for the more easie understanding, and retaining in memory the synchronistick order of the Visions of the Apocalypse. Ibid. Z ij b, The general Synchronistick Table of the Visions of that Book. 1828[see symphronistic s.v. sym-]. 1854Thirlwall Lett. (1881) I. 205 The comparative shortness of the interval..considerably increases the difficulty of the synchronistic view. 1876S. Birch Rede Lect. 16 The exact definition of three synchronistic events, the rising of the star, and of the Nile, and the commencement of the normal year of 3651/4 days. 1888A. C. Jennings (title) Chronological Tables. A synchronistic arrangement of the events of ancient history.
2. Linguistics. = synchronic a. 3.
1937J. Orr tr. Iordan's Introd. Romance Linguistics 284 Internal linguistics is static or synchronistic. 1949Archivum Linguisticum I. 127 On the synchronistic plane, homonymy seems..to preclude the existence of any intrinsic link between form and meaning. 1951[see diachronistic a.]. 1962L. J. Cohen Diversity of Meaning i. 12 Synchronistic and diachronistic enquiries—studies of a single period and studies through several periods, respectively—can and should complement each other.
3. Pertaining to or having the quality of synchronicity.
1955R. F. C. Hull tr. Jung & Pauli's Interpretation of Nature & Psyche i. 40 Synchronistic events rest on the simultaneous occurrence of two different psychic states. 1972A. Koestler Roots of Coincidence iii. 95 Thus precognitive experiences are ‘evidently synchronistic..since they are experienced as psychic images in the present as though the objective event already existed’. 1979G. Adler Dynamics of Self 10 Synchronistic phenomena, and in particular those of ESP, convinced Jung of the existence of a transcendental ‘absolute knowledge’.
So synchroˈnistical a., now rare or Obs., in sense 1; hence synchroˈnistically adv., in accordance with synchronism, synchrony (sense 2) or synchronicity; loosely, synchronously.
c1624Mede Wks. (1672) 583, I was once wonderfully pleased with that Opinion..: But now at length the Law of Synchronistical necessity hath beat me from it. 1684H. More Answ. 56 The difficult Visions..should..be referred Synchronistically to that Prophecy also. 1685― Refl. Baxter 5 Without this Synchronistical Skill..to pretend to understand the Apocalypse,..is as fond [etc.]. 1835(title) Annales Antiquitatis. Chronological Tables of Ancient History Synchronistically and Ethnographically arranged. 1860M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 165 Eusebius..undertook a synchronistical compilation of the annals of all known nations. 1878Zerffi Pre-Adamites 9 We are thus able to trace long periods of an old stone age, a new stone age, and a bronze age, till synchronistically with the historical period we reach the iron age. 1949Archivum Linguisticum I. 128 Is there any intrinsic and synchronistically valid reason for it [sc. a name] to have that form and no other? 1980R. L. C. Fitz Gibbon Rat Report vi. 112 My communication reaches you synchronistically at the same time as all the other rat reports which have been sent out every five hundred years. |