单词 | synergist |
释义 | synergistn. 1. Theology. An adherent of the doctrine of synergism. See synergism n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > grace > doctrine concerning grace > [noun] > synergism > believer in synergist1601 1601 R. Broughton Apologicall Epist. ii. 7 What errours are like to bee in Germany..where both the temporall and spirituall regiment are diuerse, hauing no common rule among them, euery man may coniecture... Such be the Lutherans, Antinomians, Stancarians, Maierists, Flaccians, Synergists, Adiaphorists, [etc.]. 1657 J. Gaule Sapientia Justificata 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. 1725 D. Cotes tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 17th Cent. I. vii. i. 287/2 The Lutherans..desir'd the Duke of Saxony to assemble a Synod against the Sacramentarians, the Adiaphorists, the Synergists, and the Osiandrists. It was assembled at Jena in 1560. 1764 A. Maclaine tr. J. L. von Mosheim Eccl. Hist. (1833) Cent. xvi. iii. ii. i. §30. 488/1 The Synergists..denied that God was the only agent in the conversion of sinful man. 1843 J. B. Robertson tr. J. A. Moehler Symbolism I. ii. 80 The formulary of concord likewise rejected the view of the Synergist. 1883 T. M. Lindsay in Encycl. Brit. XV. 85/1 The Synergist controversy, which discussed the nature of the first impulse in conversion. 1884 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. III. 2280/1 Strigel,..one of the professors at Jena, and a synergist. 1915 Theol. Q. Jan. 102 When the synergists say that conversion and salvation indeed depend on the grace of God, but to some extent also on the conduct of man, the latter assertion is an assertion beside the doctrine, and annuls the former. 1999 R. E. Olson Story Christian Theol. vii. xxvi. 422 Not only was Hubmaier the first Anabaptist theologian; he was also the first evangelical synergist. 2. a. Chiefly Pharmacology. A substance that potentiates the effect of another. Opposed to antagonist n. 4. Cf. synergy n. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > medicine co-operating with another synergist1870 M. and D.1917 1870 R. Bartholow in Practitioner 5 208 Synergists.—All the paralysers are synergistic to gelsemium. 1876 R. Bartholow Pract. Treat. Materia Med. ii. 291 Stramonium... Antagonists, Incompatibles, and Synergists, are the same as for belladonna. 1916 N.A.R.D. Jrnl. 21 758/2 Asafetida would be another valuable synergist because of its exhilarant effect on the brain. 1959 New 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. 1971 W. D. Fronk in R. E. Pfadt Fund. Appl. Entomol. (ed. 2) vii. 198 Insecticide synergists now include such materials as sesamex, piperonyl butoxide, sulfoxide, and MGK 264. 2002 K. Schellander et al. Genomics & Biotechnol. Livestock Breeding 119 In general, the flavor of cooked meat is due to a mixture of compounds, including (1) nonvolatiles or water-soluble compounds with taste-active properties, (2) potentiators and synergists and (3) volatiles which give rise to odor properties. b. Physiology. A muscle that acts with another to produce a specific movement. Opposed to antagonist n. 3. Cf. synergy n. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > part of body > [noun] > co-operating synergist1889 1889 N.Y. Med. Jrnl. 50 348/1 Not only is the crico-arytenoideus posticus an antagonist to the lateralis in its adducting power, but beyond a certain points is in some of its fibers a synergist. 1902 Lancet 26 July 222/1 This conditon [sc. exophoria]..is here defined as to be ‘a tendency of the external recti muscles and their synergists to make the visual axis deviate from the point of fixation’. 1938 Brain 61 322 This is not necessarily true for contraction of synergists. 1995 GQ Jan. 131/1 During abdominal curls or reverse curls, the internal and external obliques act as ‘synergists’—they assist but are not actually the prime movers. 2004 Guardian 3 Apr. (Weekend Suppl.) 55/1 If you are lying on your back on a bench lifting a couple of dumbbells, the prime mover is the chest (pectoral) and the synergist is the back of the upper arms (triceps). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1601 |
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