Syn'tax or Syn-tăx'is, n.

n. [Fr. syntaxe, N. Lat. syntaxis, Gr. σύνταξις, from συντάσσειν, to put together in order, from σύν, with, and τάσσειν, to put in order.] 1. Connected system or order; union of things; a number of things joined together. [Obs.] They owe no other dependence to the first than what is common to the whole syntax of being. Glanville. 2. (Gram.) The construction of sentences; the due arrangement of words in sentences in their necessary relations, according to established usage.