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synergist|ˈsɪnədʒɪst|
Also 7 sun-.
[f. Gr. συνεργός (see prec.) + -ist.]
1. Theol. One who holds the doctrine of synergism. Also attrib.
1657Gaule Sap. Just. 11 That the Adamical will, or will from Adams fall,..in the act of Conversion..is thereunto actively cooperating together with God; so the Erasmians, the Sunergists, and Arminians. 1764A. Maclaine tr. Mosheim's Eccl. Hist. Cent. xvi. iii. ii. i. §30. (1833) 488/1 The Synergists..denied that God was the only agent in the conversion of sinful man. 1882–3Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 2280/1 Strigel,..one of the professors at Jena, and a synergist. 1883T. M. Lindsay in Encycl. Brit. XV. 85/1 The Synergist controversy, which discussed the nature of the first impulse in conversion.
2. Med. and Physiol. A medicine, etc., or a bodily organ (e.g. a muscle) that co-operates with another or others: cf. synergy b.
1876Bartholow Mat. Med. (1889) 491 Stramonium... Antagonists, Incompatibles, and Synergists, are the same as for belladonna. 1876[see synergistic 2]. 1938Brain LXI. 322 This is not necessarily true for contraction of synergists. 1959New Scientist 13 Aug. 174/3 Chemical research has already provided ‘synergists’, cheaper materials which, while not insecticidal themselves, are able to make the pyrethrins more effective in greater dilution. 1969N. W. Pirie Food Resources ii. 67 Substances (called synergists) are added which, though not themselves effective insecticides, prevent those metabolic changes taking place which confer resistance. |