synodical, a.
(sɪˈnɒdɪkəl)
[f. as prec.: see -ical.]
1. Eccl. a. = synodal 1.
| 1561 T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. vii. §6 To the Consecration was annexed the sendyng of a Synodicall Epistle. 1612 tr. Theodoret's Eccl. Hist. iv. iii. 246 A synodicall epistle concerning the faith, written by Athanasius to the Emperour Iouianus. 1618 Hales Gold. Rem. ii. (1673) 76 Their answer was that it could not stand with their Conscience to promise Obedience to all Synodical Decrees. 1647 N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. xvi. (1739) 32 In Synodical disputes they would hold with the Canon. 1725 tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 17th C. I. v. 69 The synodical or synodal Letters, are those which are wrote in the Name of a Synod, and which contain its Decisions or Regulations. 1820 Milner Suppl. Mem. Eng. Cath. 153 The synodical decision of the Irish Bishops. 1876 Prayer Bk. Interleaved 23 Whether or no Edward's First Prayer-book received synodical sanction is a disputed point. |
b. = synodal 3.
| 1565 J. Calfhill Answ. Martiall 70 The great vertue & profound knowledge of those Synodicall men. 1656 Ussher (title) The Reduction of Episcopacie Vnto the Form of Synodical Government Received in the Antient Church. 1736 Chandler Hist. Persec. 108 He was resolved to have his will, and add synodical authority to his own words and opinions. 1827 Hallam Const. Hist. xi. (1876) II. 315 The presbyterian discipline and synodical government were very partially introduced. 1866 Felton Greece, Anc. & Mod. II. ii. iv. 320 Both parties, the Arians as well as the Orthodox,..resorted to synodical majorities. |
c. = synodal 2, 2 b.
| 1593 R. Bancroft Dangerous Posit. iii. xiii. 110 The Articles of the holy Discipline and Synodicall [sic], must alwaies be read [in the synod]. 1600 W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 93 That Synodicall court. 1643 Ord. Lords & Comm., Westm. Confess. (1658) 202 Assemblies, which are Congregational, Classical, and Synodical. 1661 Reg. Privy Council Scot. Ser. iii. I. 29 The assemblieing of ministers in their severall synodicall meittings. a 1679 J. Ward Diary (1839) 161 Mr. Leigh, the synodical commentator. |
2. Astron. Pertaining to the conjunction of two heavenly bodies (see conjunction 3); said esp. of the revolution, or period of revolution, of a planet between two successive conjunctions with the sun, or of a satellite between two successive conjunctions with (or occultations or eclipses by) its primary planet. synodic month, the synodic period of the moon, i.e. the time from new moon to new moon; a lunar month, lunation. (Opp. to sidereal.)
| 1669 Sturmy Mariner's Mag. vi. 95 So twenty nine and half [days] in all, Do make a Month Synodical [mispr. Synonidal]. 1696 Whiston The. Earth ii. (1722) 177 The Lunar Year was then exactly..twelve Synodical Revolutions of the Moon. 1761 Phil. Trans. LII. 106 The second satellite has a synodical equation of 16{p} or 17{p} in time, to be subtracted. 1784 Herschel ibid. LXXIV. 242 By which means the sidereal is reduced to a proper synodical period. 1788 Ibid. LXXVIII. 365 The first satellite performs a synodical revolution round its primary planet in 8 days 17 hours 1 minute and 19·3 seconds. 1812 Woodhouse Astron. xxviii. 276 The time between conjunction and conjunction, or between opposition and opposition, is denominated, a Synodical period. 1868 Lockyer Elem. Astron. §244. 102 Nineteen synodical revolutions of the node..are equal to 223 synodical revolutions of the moon. |