a. [Formed as prec. + -ICAL.] = prec.
1621. Bp. Mountagu, Diatribæ, 385. The Clarkes of the Chancery … and … Clergy men … would not transferre their name of Presbyter, or of Presbyteratus, to any such signification, either synagogicall or synodicall, after the Lemannian cut.
1644. J. Goodwin, Innoc. Triumph. (1645), 20. Nor were the members of this Assembly, Synod, chosen by the respective Synagogicall Congregations.
1882–3. Schaff’s Encycl. Relig, Knowl., I. 791. Those synagogical desks from which Jewish rabbins … read.
So Synagogism, attachment to a system likened to that of the Jewish synagogue; Synagogist, an adherent of the Jewish synagogue.
c. 1662. F. Kerby, in O. Heywood’s Diaries, etc. (1883), III. 27. The Dianists and the contradicting synagogists [cf. Acts xix. 1, 8, 9, 37, 34].
1891. W. Tuckwell, in Review of Churches, 12 Dec., 175/1. A generation stiffened by three centuries of conventional synagogism.
