a. rare. [f. SYNTAX + -ICAL. Cf. F. syntaxique.] = SYNTACTICAL.

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1586.  A. Day, Engl. Secretorie, II. (1625), 81. Schemes Syntaxicall, are Eclipsis…. Aposiopesis … Zeugma … Syllepsis … Prolepsis [etc.].

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1826.  Syd. Smith, Hamilton’s Meth. Teach. Lang., Wks. 1839, II. 325. The case of the substantive, and the syntaxical arrangement in which it is to be placed.

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