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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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... talk about the law, and school-masters talk about the latin tongue, in a way to make their hearers think they mean entities pre-existent to the decisions or to the words and syntax, determining them unequivocally and requiring them to obey. But the slightest exercise of reflexion makes us see that, instead of being principles of this kind, both law and latin are results. Distinctions between the lawful and the unlawful in conduct, or between the correct and incorrect in ...

— Pragmatism - A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking • William James

... Examples in Syntax, Accidence, and Style, for criticism and correction. New edition, ...

— Textiles • William H. Dooley

... ye pale professors, who drilled me in syntax and scansion, ye would deem me ungrateful indeed were I to give utterance to the contempt and indignation which I then felt for ye—then, when I looked back upon ten years of wasted existence spent under your tutelage—then, when, after believing myself ...

— The Quadroon - Adventures in the Far West • Mayne Reid

... The syntax of the thought is sufficiently lucid and orderly, but it is compressed into too few words. In the Fifth Book of Paradise ...

— Milton • Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh

... bridle (the truants of that busy day could have anticipated its application), walked down the Lawnmarket with Mr. Saddletree, each talking as he could get a word thrust in, the one on the laws of Scotland, the other on those of syntax, and neither listening to a word ...

— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

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