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  • SYNDICOS
    One chosen by a college, municipality, etc., to defend its cause, Calvin.
  • SYNGRAPH
    The name given by the canonists to deeds of which both partB were written on the same piece of parchment with some word or letters of tbe alphabet written between them, through which the parchment was cut in such a manner as to leave half the word on one part More...
  • SYNOD
    A meeting or assembly of ecclesiastical persons, concerning religion; being the same thing, in Greek, as convocation in Latin. There are four kinds: (1) A general or universal synod or council, where 'bishops of all nations meet; (2) a national synod of the clergy of one nation only; (3) a More...
  • SYNODAL
    A tribute or payment in money paid to the bishop or archdeacon by the Inferior clergy, at the Easter visitation.
  • SYNODALES TESTES
    L. Lat. Synods-men (corrupted into sidesmen) were the urban and rural deans, now the church-wardens
  • SYPHILIS
    In medical jurisprudence. A loathsome venereal disease (vulgarly called "the pox") of peculiar virulence, infectious by direct contact capable of hereditary transmission, and the fruitful source of various other diseases and, directly or indirectly, of Insanity.
  • T.
    As an abbreviation, this letter usually stands for either "Territory," "Trinity," "term," "tempore" (in the time of,) or "title." Every person who was convicted of felony, short of murder, and admitted to the benefit of clergy, was at one time marked with this letter upon the brawn of the thumb. More...
  • T. R. E.
    An abbreviation of "Tempore Regie Edwardi," (in the time of King Edward,) of common occurrence in Domesday, when the valuation of manors, as it was in the time of Edward the Confessor, is recounted. Cowell.
  • TABARD
    A short gown; a herald's coat; a surcoat.
  • TABARDER
    One who wears a tabard or short gown; the name is still used as the title of certain bachelors of arts on the old foundation of Queen's College, Oxford. Enc. Lond.
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