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synˈtactical, a.
[f. mod.L. syntacticus: see prec. and -ical. Cf. syntaxical.]
Belonging or relating to grammatical syntax. Also transf. in reference to musical composition (quot. 1597) and logic (see syntax 2 d).
1577Peacham Gard. Eloquence B j, A figure is deuided into Tropes & Schemates, Grammatical, Orthographical, Syntactical. 1597Morley Introd. Mus. Annot. ⁋j b, Musicke is diuided into two parts, the first may be called Elementarie or rudimental, teaching to know the quality and quantity of notes... The second may be called Syntactical, Poetical, or effectiue; treatinge of soundes, concordes, and discords. 1755Johnson Dict. Pref., The various syntactical structures occurring in the examples. 1846M. Williams Sansk. Gram. 29 This absence of syntactical auxiliaries leads to the necessity for eight cases. 1852Blackie Stud. Lang. 32 To make a regular study of the syntactical laws of the language. 1891Driver Introd. Lit. Old Test. (1892) 504 Instances of singular syntactical usages. 1937A. Smeaton tr. Carnap's Logical Syntax of Lang. 2 The difference between syntactical rules in the narrower sense and the logical rules of deduction is the only difference between formation rules and transformation rules, both of which are completely formulable in syntactical terms. 1954I. M. Copi Symbolic Logic vi. 184 To characterize the criterion as ‘purely formal’ is to say that it is syntactical rather than semantical. 1978Jrnl. Symbolic Logic XLIII. 511 We need first two syntactical transformations on formulae.
Hence synˈtactically adv., in relation to, or according to the rules of, grammatical or logical syntax.
1706Bailey (title) English and Latin Exercises for school⁓boys, to translate into Latin syntactically. 1858–9G. P. Marsh Engl. Lang. xiii. (1862) 191 They are not syntactically connected. 1940W. V. Quine Math. Logic vii. 286 The fact that ‘Vbl’.., and ‘LFmla’ are definable in this syntactical notation is perhaps best expressed..by speaking of them as syntactically definable. 1967Encycl. Philos. V. 23/1 Deductive systems for sentential logic..serve to characterize logic syntactically. 1971G. Hunter Metalogic iii. 116 PS is syntactically complete..iff no unprovable schema can be added to it..without inconsistency. |