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Syntax n.

Connected system or order; union of things; a number of things jointed together; organism. (Obs.) "They owe no other dependence to the first than what is common to the whole syntax of beings."

That part of grammar which treats of the construction of sentences; the due arrangement of words in sentences in their necessary relations, according to established usage in any language.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... a rich, erudite and complex syntax that turned all opposition into admiration. Even the president, who had been listening to theology all his life and had much business to attend to, must fain neglect some of it for the pleasure of listening to Mathias when he lectured. Even Saddoc, the most orthodox ...

— The Brook Kerith - A Syrian story • George Moore

... had an influence on the new age greater than yours, more largely prepared the way of the newest music. You are indeed the good friend of all who dream of a new musical language, a new musical syntax and balance and structure, and set out to explore the vast, vague regions, the terra incognita of tone. For you are their ancestor. If, in its general, homophonic nature, your work belongs primarily to the romantic period, your conviction that the content conditions the form of every ...

— Musical Portraits - Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers • Paul Rosenfeld

... The syntax of the classic languages, which had been my weak point as a school-boy, now aroused the deepest interest, and I was grateful to Lepsius for having so earnestly insisted upon my pursuing philology. I soon felt the warmest appreciation ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... vocabulary is different but the syntax and phonemes are nearly identical. I'll speak it perfectly in a week. It's just a question of memorizing two or three thousand new words. Incidentally, Joe wants to know why you're digging up his bottom land. He was all set ...

— Blessed Are the Meek • G.C. Edmondson

... the jay was sternly reproved for her mutinous and treasonable assertions by the husband of her mistress, Raja Ram, who, although still a bridegroom, had not forgotten the gallant rule of his syntax— ...

— Vikram and the Vampire • Sir Richard F. Burton

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