synodal
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English synodal, synodall, from Latin synodālis.[1][2] By surface analysis, synod + -al.
Noun
editsynodal (plural synodals)
- A tribute in money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, at the time of his Easter visitation, by every parish priest, now made to the ecclesiastical commissioners; a procuration.
- 1887, Thomas Gibson, Legends and Historical Notes on Places of North Westmoreland:
- synodals, paid to the Bishop of Carlisle every year
- A constitution made in a provincial or diocesan synod.
- c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 65, lines 130–135:
- Or els is thys Goddis law,
Decrees or decretals,
Or holy sinodals,
Or els provincyals,
Thus within the wals
Of holy church to deale […]?
Adjective
editsynodal (not comparable)
- synodic; relating to a synod
- 1641, [John Milton], Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 17:
- Your juſtification is but a miſerable ſhifting off thoſe teſtimonies of the ancienteſt Fathers alledg’d againſt you, and the authority of ſome Synodal Canons, which are no warrant to us.
References
edit- ^ “synodal, adj. and n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- ^ “sinodā̆l, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “synodal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French
editEtymology
editFrom synode + -al, from Ecclesiastical Latin synodus, from Ancient Greek σύνοδος (súnodos).
Pronunciation
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Adjective
editsynodal (feminine synodale, masculine plural synodaux, feminine plural synodales)
- (Christianity, relational) of a synod; synodic
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “synodal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Late Latin synodālis, from synodus, from Ancient Greek σύνοδος (súnodos, “assembly, meeting”). Cognate with English synodal, Dutch synodaal, French synodal.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
editsynodal (strong nominative masculine singular synodaler, not comparable)
- (relational) synod; synodic (notably in ecclesiastic context)
Declension
editnumber & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist synodal | sie ist synodal | es ist synodal | sie sind synodal | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | synodaler | synodale | synodales | synodale |
genitive | synodalen | synodaler | synodalen | synodaler | |
dative | synodalem | synodaler | synodalem | synodalen | |
accusative | synodalen | synodale | synodales | synodale | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der synodale | die synodale | das synodale | die synodalen |
genitive | des synodalen | der synodalen | des synodalen | der synodalen | |
dative | dem synodalen | der synodalen | dem synodalen | den synodalen | |
accusative | den synodalen | die synodale | das synodale | die synodalen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein synodaler | eine synodale | ein synodales | (keine) synodalen |
genitive | eines synodalen | einer synodalen | eines synodalen | (keiner) synodalen | |
dative | einem synodalen | einer synodalen | einem synodalen | (keinen) synodalen | |
accusative | einen synodalen | eine synodale | ein synodales | (keine) synodalen |
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “synodal” in Duden online
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