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Syriac, a. and n.|ˈsɪrɪæk|
Also 7 -aque, -ack.
[ad. L. Syriacus = Gr. συριακός, f. Syria, συρία. Cf. F. syriaque, It., Pg. syriaco, Sp. siriaco.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to Syria: only of or in reference to the language (see B.); written in Syriac; writing, or versed, in Syriac.
1602T. Fitzherbert Apol. 49 As wel in the Greeke text, as in the Siriac and Caldie. 1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. i. iii. (1636) 157 The Syriaque tongue, which is composed of the Hebrew, Chalde, Arabique and Greeke tongues. 1659Bp. Walton Consid. Considered ix. 179 Some Syriack Copies of the New Testament. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing ii. ⁋2 Some Bodies with..the Greek, the Hebrew, and the Syriack Face. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xxxiii. (1787) III. 350 note, Two Syriac writers..place the resurrection of the Seven Sleepers in the year 736 (a.d. 425), or 748 (a.d. 437), of the æra of the Seleucides. 1867M. E. Herbert Cradle L. iii. 101 A very curious old Syriac copy of the Four Gospels. 1895J. R. Harris Hermas in Arcadia, etc. (1896) 45 We have not been in the habit of either studying or trusting Syriac writers in the degree they deserve.
B. n. The ancient Semitic language of Syria; formerly in wide use, = Aramaic; now, the form of Aramaic used by Syrian Christians, in which the Peshito version of the Bible is written.
1611Bible Dan. ii. 4 Then spake the Caldeans to the King in Syriacke. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) II. 93 Out of that intermixture of Hebrew and Chaldee resulted a third language call'd to this day the Syriac, which also, after the time of our Saviour, began to be more adulterated by admission of Greek, Roman, and Arabic. 1668Wilkins Real Char. 5 Those passages in the Gospel, which are said to be in the Hebrew tongue, as Talitha Kumi,..are properly Syriac. 1780Cowper Progr. Err. 499 If stubborn Greek refuse to be his friend, Hebrew or Syriac shall be forc'd to bend. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xxxiii. (1787) III. 350 note, The narrative [of the Seven Sleepers] which was translated from the Syriac by the care of Gregory of Tours. 1867Whitney Lang. & Study of Lang. viii. 298 The ancient Syriac is still the sacred dialect of the feeble bodies of Christians in Asia which represent the Syriac church. 1899F. C. Burkitt Early Chr. outside Roman Emp. 16 The Syriac-speaking subjects of the Christianised Empire.
b. A or the Syriac version (of the Bible).
1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 45 As for the burning of those Ephesian books.., tis reply'd the books were magick, the Syriack so renders them. 1692W. Marshall Gospel-Myst. Sanctif. x. (1780) 169 The Spirit itself..beareth our spirits witness, as the Syriac and vulgar Latin render it. 1910Expositor May 396 The Latin Vulgate, the two Syriacs, the Gothic.
†c. A printers' type of a Syriac letter or character. Obs. rare.
1670R. Scott Let. to Fell in Hart Cent. Typogr. Oxf. (1900) 156 Y⊇ printer..giues mee notice yt they ca[nnot] goe on wth y⊇ notes vntill they haue cast a Syriack.
Hence ˈSyriacism |-əsɪz(ə)m| = Syriasm; ˈSyriacist |-əsɪst|, a Syriac scholar; ˈSyriacize |-əsaɪz| v. trans., to turn or translate into Syriac.
1645Milton Tetrach. Wks. 1851 IV. 237 The New Testament..hath nothing neer so many Atticisms as Hebraisms, and Syriacisms. 1848Bagster's Anal. Heb. Conc. 31 By a Syriacism, the suffixes are sometimes attached, without a union vowel. 1863Liddon Some Words for God i. (1865) 5 The words actually uttered by our Lord upon the cross, and which He took from a Syriacized version of Ps. xxii. |