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The construction is an unparsable synchysis, a vile snarl, which no grammarian should hesitate to condemn.

—The Grammar of English Grammars

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Confusion or derangement. Specifically— In rhetoric, a hyperbaton so violent as to confuse the meaning of a sentence. An example is Worst of the worst were that man he that reigns! Tennyson, Guinevere.
In pathology, fluidity of the vitreons humor of the eye.
Synchysis scintillans fluidity of the vitreous humor of the eye, with the presence of small crystals of cholesterin or other snbstance, which appear as sparkling points on ophthalmoscopic examination.

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[Greek: synchysis] [Errata: [Greek: Synchysis]], or Confusion) was — The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject.
A synchysis, or ill-placing of words, of which Tully so much complains in oratory. — The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04
The construction is an unparsable synchysis, a vile snarl, which no grammarian should hesitate to condemn. — The Grammar of English Grammars
-- is diff. from synchysis — The Grammar of English Grammars
_unto_ is placed last in the verse, and at the half period, and is redundant, there is the former synchysis in the words "the sword, nor surfeits" which in construction ought to have been placed before the other. — The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04

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Late Latin, from Greek σύγχυσ, σ1ις, a mixing together, a commingling, from συγχεῖν, pour together, from σύν, together, + χεῖν, pour: see chyle.

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