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SYLVIUS (Francis and James), two eminent physicians. 
See the introduction to the article Pathology. 
SY'MBOL, s. [symbole. Fr., crvp.Goi.ov, Gr.; symbolum , 
Latin.] An abstract; a compendium; a comprehensive 
form.—Beginning with the symbol of our faith, upon that 
the author of the gloss enquires into the nature of faith. 
Baker. —A type; that which comprehends in its figure a 
representation of something else.—A sign or badge to know 
one by; a memorial. 
That as a sacred symbole it may dwell 
In her sonne’s Best to mind revengement. Spenser. 
SYMBOLICAL, adj. [symbolique, Fr.; ovpflo\iKo<;, Gr.] 
Representative ; typical; expressing by signs; comprehend¬ 
ing something more than itself.—The sacrament is a repre¬ 
sentation of Christ’s death, by such symbolical actions as 
himself appointed. Bp. Taylor. 
SYMBOLICALLY, ado. Typically; by representation. 
—It symbolically teaches our duty, and promotes charity 
by a real signature and a sensible sermon. Bp. Taylor. 
SYMBOLIZATION, s. The act of symbolizing; repre¬ 
sentation ; resemblance.—The hieroglyphical symbols of 
scripture, excellently intended in the species of things 
sacrificed in the dreams of Pharaoh, are oftentimes racked 
beyond their symbolizations. Brown. 
To SY'MBOLIZE, ». n. [symboliser, Fr.] To have 
something in common with another by representative qua¬ 
lities.—Our king finding himself to symbolize in many 
things with that king of the Hebrews, honoured him with 
the title of this foundation. Bacon. 
To SY'MBOLIZE, v. a. To make representative of 
something.—Some symbolize the same from the mystery of 
its colours. Brown. 
SYMI, a small island near the coast of Asia Minor, shut- 
ing in the mouth of a small bay of the same name. The 
whole population reside in the town, which is built near the 
top of a high rocky mountain, and containing from 1800 
to 2000 houses. The streets are in general from three to 
five feet wide, unpaved, hilly, rocky, steep, and dirty; but 
the houses are neat, whitewashed outside, and comfortable 
within. The island consists almost exclusively of moun¬ 
tains of rock, producing nothing but a little fruit in the 
gardens of the rich. Every necessary of life being imported, 
and the sea being their only resource, all the men of the place 
are naturally seamen. There are belonging to the island 
fifty trading vessels, and as many small fishing boats. 
SYMINGTON, a parish of Scotland, in Lanarkshire, 
of nearly a circular figure, 3 miles in diameter. The surface 
is in general level. Population 364.—A parish in Arysbire; 
about 4 miies long, and 14 broad. Population 656. 
SYMMACHUS(Q. Aurelius Avianus), a Roman sena¬ 
tor of the fourth century, became prefect of Rome, pontiff 
and augur, and proconsul of Africa. He vigorously resisted 
the changes that were made in the national religion by the 
triumphs of Christianity, and headed a deputation from the 
senate to the emperor Valentinian II. The petition above- 
mentioned is preserved in ten books of Symmachus’s Epistles, 
still extant. “ Theluxuriancy of Symmachus,”says Gibbon, 
“ consists of barren leaves, without fruits, and even without 
flowers. Few facts, and few sentiments, can be extracted 
from his verbose correspondence.” 
SY'MMETRAL, adj. Commensurable. Phillips. — 
It was both the doctrine of the apostles, and the practice of 
the church, while it was symmetral , to obey the magistrate. 
More. 
SYMME'TRIAN, s. One eminently studious of pro¬ 
portion.—His face was a thought longer than the exact 
symmetrians would allow. Sidney. 
" SYMMETRICAL, adj. Proportionate; having parts 
well adapted to each other.—I have known many a woman 
with an exact shape, and a symmetrical assemblage of 
beautiful features, please nobody. Ld. Chesterfield. 
SY'MMETRIST, s. One very studious or observant 
of proportion.—Some exact symmetrists have been blamed 
for being too true. Wotton. 
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To SY'MMETRIZE, v. a. To make proportionate.— 
He would soon have supplied every deficiency, and sym~ 
metrized every disproportion. Burke. 
SY'MMETRY, s. [ symmetric , Fr.; <rvv and peroov, Gr.] 
Adaptation of parts to each other; proportion; harmony ; 
agreement of one part to another. 
She by whose lines proportion should be 
Examin’d, measure of all symmetry ; 
Whom had that ancient seer, who thought souls made 
Of harmony, he would at next have said 
That harmony was she. Donne. 
SYMONDSBURY, a parish of England, in Dorsetshire; 
1 mile west of Bridport. Population 860. 
SYMPATHETICAL, or Sympathetic, adj. [sym- 
patlietique, Fr.] Having mutual sensation; being affected 
either by what happens to the other; feeling in consequence 
of what another feels. 
To you our author makes her soft request. 
Who speak the kindest, and who write the best: 
Your sympathetic hearts she hopes to move. 
From tender friendship and endearing love. Prior. 
SYMPATHETICALLY, ad-o. With sympathy; in 
consequence of sympathy.—He seems to have catched 
sympathetically Sandy’s sudden impulse to break forth into 
a devout song at the aweful and inspiring spectacle. War - 
ton. 
To SY'MPATHIZE, v. n. [sympatiser, Fr.] To feel 
with another; to feel in consequence of what another feels; 
to feel mutually. 
Nature, in awe to him. 
Hath doff’d her gaudy trim, 
With her great master so to sympathize. Milton. 
To agree; to fit. Not proper. —Green is a pleasing co¬ 
lour, from a blue and a yellow mixed together, and by con¬ 
sequence blue and yellow are two colours which sympathize. 
Dryden. 
SY'MPATHY, s. [ sympathie , Fr.; Tvpzra^eia, Gr.] Fel¬ 
low-feeling; mutual sensibility; the quality of being affected by 
the suffering or pleasure of another.—You are not young"; 
no more am I: go to, then, there’s sympathy: you are merry, 
so am I; ha! ha! then there’s more sympathy: you love 
sack, and so do I; would you desire better sympathy ?■ 
Shakspeare. 
SYMPIIONIA, in Botany, a genus of the class monadel- 
phia, order pentandria.—Generic Character. Calyx: peri¬ 
anth five-leaved, permanent; leaflets roundish, very small, 
spreading. Corolla: petals five, roundish, subcoriaceous, 
concave, converging into a depressed globe. Stamina : 
filaments cylindric, sheathing the style. Anthers five, ovate, 
acute, alternate with the stigmas. Pistil: germ ovate. Style 
cylindric, a little longer than the corolla. Stigmas five, 
oblong, acute, spreading. Pericarp: berry five celled, 
globular. Seeds solitary, subglobular, smooth, flatter inter¬ 
nally.— Essential Character. One-styled. Corolla globu¬ 
lar. Berry five-celled. 
Symphonia globulifera.—This is a tree with a thick lofty 
trunk. Branchlets shorter, smooth, marked with scars from 
the fallen leaves. Leaves at the end of the branchlets, ap¬ 
proximating, lanceolate, entire, very smooth, glaucous, keeled 
underneath with a blunt rachis; veins very fine, transverse; 
consistence of bay leaves, a hand in length. Petioles very 
short, half round. Umbel terminating, simple, few flowered, 
sessile. Peduncles erect, angular, one-flowered.—Native of 
Surinam. 
SYMPHO'NIOUS, adj. Harmonious; agreeing in sound. 
Up he rode, 
Follow’d with acclamation and the sound 
Symphonious of ten thousand harps, that tun’d 
Angelic harmonies. Milton. 
SY'MPHONY, s. [symphonie, Fr.; <rvv and <puvi j, Gr.] 
Concert of instruments; harmony of mingled sounds. 
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