Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who attempts to blend incongruous tenets, or doctrines of different schools or churches, into a system.
- noun Specifically— A follower of Calixtus (1586–1656), a Lutheran divine, and professor of theology at Helmstedt, who endeavored to frame a religious system which should unite the different Christian denominations, Protestant and Catholic.
- noun One of a school, in the sixteenth century, which attempted to mediate between the Platonic and Aristotelian philosophies. Also used attributively: as, a syncretist religious system.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eccl. Hist.) One who attempts to unite principles or parties which are irreconcilably at variance
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who attempts
syncretism , the fusion of different systems or beliefs.
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Examples
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In the context of the point you bring up basically the later Akbar who was more the 'syncretist' is read back into the young Akbar who was more than happy (on sincere or politically expedient grounds) to represent himself as a 'warrior of the faith'.
NAACHGAANA 2009
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Scott is a modern-day Renaissance Man with interests in astronomy, history, natural sciences, psychology, philosophy, Native American culture, and all future-forward topics; he has been called an adept syncretist by Kirkus Discoveries for NeitherWorld.
Printing: Bike Ride to Close the Greenway Gap in NYC Sunday 11/8 at 11:00am! 2009
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Scott is a modern-day Renaissance Man with interests in astronomy, history, natural sciences, psychology, philosophy, Native American culture, and all future-forward topics; he has been called an adept syncretist by Kirkus Discoveries for NeitherWorld.
Printing: Close the Greenway Gap in East Side Manhattan 2009
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I was a bit of loon in those days, maybe, compulsively, almost schizophrenically syncretist, trying to "put it all together", to find the grand, unifying story that all of these ideas could be fitted into.
Why Do I Infernokrush? Hal Duncan 2005
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So much of a syncretist is Plato, though not after the manner of the
Timaeus 2006
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His religious practice would seem to be New Age or syncretist or multicultural.
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No Shelleyan syncretist, Heber was nonetheless a learned comparatist (as his "Brightest and Best" Magi hymn suggests), interested in a Manichean Zoroastrianism that would divide good from evil.
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But, condemned by the Church of Rome to - ward the middle of that century, it became more and more syncretist.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas SIMONE P 1968
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Founded in the third century of our era by the Persian Mani, Manicheism is one of the late, syncretist forms of Gnosticism.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas SIMONE P 1968
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Only the syncretist period of later antiquity conceives of the world as governed by good and evil demons.
MUSIC AS A DEMONIC ART REINHOLD HAMMERSTEIN 1968
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