the combination of different forms of belief, esp religious belief, or practice
the fusion of two or more orig different inflectional forms of words, e.g. the use of was for pl and second person sing. subjects in nonstandard English as well as for first and third person sing
syncretic /singʹkretik/ adj
syncretist noun and adj
syncretistic /-ʹtistik/ adj
[scientific Latin from Greek synkrētismos federation of Cretan cities, from syn- + Krēt-, Krēs Cretan]