Superlative degree, defined,
    —­BROWN’S definit. of, and of the other degrees, new; the faulty
      charac. of those of MURR., shown,
    —­the true nature of; how may be used; to what is applicable; the
      explanations of, by the copyists of MURR., criticised,
    —­whether not applicable to two objects,
    —­when employed, what construc. of the latter term should follow.
    —­Double superlatives, to be avoided.
    —­Superl. termination, contractions of.

Supplied, in parsing, what must be.  See also Ellipsis.

Suppression, mark of, see Ellipsis.

Syllabic writing, far inferior to the alphabetic, BLAIR.

Syllabication, Rules of,
    —­the doctrine of, why attended with difficulty,
    —­object of; WALK. on; strictures on MULK. rules of,
    —­which of the four purposes of, is preferable in spelling-books and
      dictionaries,
    —­DR. LOWTH on,
    —­nature of BROWN’S six Rules of; advantage of a system of, founded on
      the pronunciat.,
    —­LATH. and FOWL. fictitious dilemmas in.
    —­Syllabication, erroneous, samples of, from MURR., WEBST., et al.

SYLLABLES, treated.
    —­Syllable defined.
    —­Syllable, cannot be formed without a vowel,
    —­cannot be broken.
    —­Syllables, numb. of, in a word,
    —­words denominated from their numb. of,
    —­the ear chiefly directs in the division of words into. 
    —­(See Syllabication.)
    —­Syllable, its quantity in poetry,
    —­do., on what depends.

Syllepsis, explained,
    —­literal signif. of the term; extended applicat. of do. by the
      grammarians and rhetoricians; BROWN, by his definition, gives it a
      more restricted applicat.; disapproves of WEBST. explanat. of the
      term,
    —­what definition or what applicat. of the term is the most approp.,
      has become doubtful.

Synaeresis, explained.

Synchysis, what was so termed by some of the ancients; is different from hyperbaton; its import in gram.; its literal signif.

Syncope, explained.

Synecdoche, (comprehension,) explained.
    —­Synecd., agreem. of pron. with anteced., in cases of.

Synonymous, words so accounted, PREC. concerning the use of.

Syntactical parsing, see Parsing.

SYNTAX.
    —­Synt., of what treats,
    —­the relation of words, the most important principle of; defects of
      the grammars in treating of do.,
    —­false exhibitions of grammarians with respect to the scope and parts
      of,
    —­character of the rules of, found in most grammars,
    —­divided by some