symphytism
English
Etymology
Ancient Greek [Term?] (“grown together”), + -ism
Noun
symphytism (uncountable)
- coalescence; a growing into one with another word
- 1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue
- Some of the phrasal adverbs have assumed the form of single words, by that symphytism which naturally attaches these light elements to each other.
- 1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for symphytism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)