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synonymic, a. (n.)|sɪnəˈnɪmɪk|
[f. synonym n. + -ic, after F. synonymique.]
A. adj. Of, relating to, consisting of, or exhibiting synonyms.
1816W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXXIX. 472 A synonymic table of the geography of Egypt under the Pharaohs. 1857J. W. Gibbs Philol. Studies 220 Synonymic distinctions, however, should not be carried too far in any language. 1871Kirby (title) A Synonymic Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera. 1881Sharpe in Nature XXIII. 481/2 The intricate windings of synonymic literature. 1899A. Gudeman in Class. Rev. XIII. 214/2 Pulchritudinem ac speciem. The same synonymic collocation occurs in Firm. Maternus.
¶ The meaning ‘synonymous’ given in mod. Dicts. appears to be unsupported; but cf. next, 1.
B. n. The study of synonyms, as a department of grammar. [Cf. F. synonymique, G. synonymik.] Also synoˈnymics.
1857J. W. Gibbs Philol. Studies 220 It is the business of synonymic merely to notice the distinctions actually existing, not to create them, or to anticipate their origin. 1909Cent. Dict. Suppl., Synonymics. 1939W. E. Collinson in Trans. Philol. Soc. 54 (title) Comparative synonymics: some principles and illustrations. Ibid. 58 The first principle I venture to set up in synonymics..[is that] ‘one must never be content with studying synonyms as isolated items’. 1962H. M. Hoenigswald in Householder & Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 103 Some works, like Dornseiff's monstrous Wortschatz or like other thesauri of synonymics are arranged according to semantic areas. |