Syn-thet'ic-al1, a.
a. Of, or pertaining to, syntaxis; consumptive; syntetic.
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a. Of, or pertaining to, syntaxis; consumptive; syntetic.
a. [Fr. synthétique, Gr. συνθετικός.] Pertaining to synthesis; consisting in synthesis or composition; as, the synthetic method of reasoning, as opposed to the analytical.
Philosophers hasten too much from the analytic to the synthetic method; that is, they draw general conclusions from too small a number of particular observations and experiments. Bolingbroke.