syndic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪndɪk/
rhymes: -ɪndɪk
Forms: form: syndics
form: syndick
Etymology: Borrowed from French syndic (“delegated representative; a chief magistrate of Geneva; a censor; critic (obsolete)”), from Late Latin syndicus (“representative of a corporation or town, syndic”), from Ancient Greek σύνδικος (súndikos, “advocate of a defendant”), from σῠν- (sŭn-, prefix meaning ‘together, with’) + δῐ́κη (dĭ́kē, “law, order; right; judgment; justice; lawsuit; trial”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to point out”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming nouns).
Senses: examples: text: The Bailiffes and Syndicks of Merindoll appeare the ſecond time.
ref: 1610 October, John Foxe, “A Notable History of the Persecution and Destruction of the People of Merindol and Cabriers in the Country of Prouince: […]”, in The Second Volume of the Ecclesiasticall Historie, Containing the Acts and Monuments of Martyrs, […], 6th edition, volume II, London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for the Company of Stationers, →OCLC, book VII, marginal note, page 867, column 2:
text: [T]he two Syndicks and the reſt of the Magiſtrates of that City began to pry more narrowly into their ſtay, and more neerely into their actions; […]
ref: 1640, John Reynolds, “History XVII”, in The Triumphs of Gods Revenge against the Crying and Execrable Sinne of (Wilfull and Premeditated) Murther. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Edward Griffin for William Lee, […], →OCLC, book IV, page 269:
text: This City is govern'd by a Syndick and Twenty Five Senators, who meet every Day to conſult about the Affairs of the Commonwealth, and to decide all Cauſes, whether Criminal or Civil.
ref: 1694, [Giovanni Paolo Marana], “Letter I. To Hamet, Reis Effendi, Principal Secretary of the Ottoman Empire.”, in [Daniel Saltmarsh], transl., The Eighth and Last Volume of Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, Who Liv’d Five and Forty Years Undiscover’d at Paris: […], volume VIII, London: […] J. R. for J. Hindmarsh and R. Sare, […], →OCLC, book IV, page 232:
text: A syndic shall be appointed for every canal not being administered by a corporation or other public body on behalf of any part of the community.
ref: 1905, Mauritius, Sir Francis Taylor Piggott, Louis Arthur Thibaud ·, Ordinances, page 819:
text: To-morrow, after the midday prayer, mount an ass and make for the Habbānīyah quarter and there inquire for the house of the syndic Barakah, known as Abū Shāmah.
ref: 1923, J[oseph] C[harles] Mardrus, “The Tale of the Christian Broker”, in [Edward] Powys Mathers, transl., The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night […], London: Routledge & Kegal Paul […], published 1956, →OCLC, page 253:
text: In 1760 one Intendant went so far as to dissolve the militia altogether and appointed syndics to carry on the local government.
ref: 1963, C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins, 2nd Revised edition, Vintage Books, published 2023, →ISBN, page 35:
topics: government
glosses: A government official having different duties depending on the country; also, a magistrate, especially one of the Chief Magistrates of Geneva, Switzerland.
examples: text: In France, syndics are appointed by the creditors of a bankrupt to manage the property.
text: The University of Cambridge has syndics who are chosen from the senate to transact special business, such as the regulation of fees and the framing of laws.
text: The duties and powers of a provisional syndic are distinctly set out in section 1793 of the Revised Statutes. It says that "the duties of the provisional syndic shall consist in keeping, as a deposit, all the goods and other effects of the insolvent debtor; […]"
ref: 1890, Southern Reporter - Volume 6, page 99:
text: After such cession and acceptance, property of debtor mentioned in schedule shall be vested in creditors; and syndic shall take possession of same and administer and sell according to law.
ref: 1896, William L. Stewart, The Snow-Church Company's Legal and Banking Year Book, page 250:
text: A judgment homologating the final account of the syndic of an insolvent estate, which becomes final, is res judicata to all parties who participated in the cession or in concurso.
ref: 1918, Edward Franklin White, William Kernan Dart, Louisiana Digest Annotated, page 123:
glosses: An agent of a corporation, or of any body of people engaged in a business enterprise; specifically, in the University of Cambridge, a member of the senate appointed to carry out specific duties.
examples: text: The larger powers with which the syndic was invested by Martin IV and by his successors, Martin V ("Constitutiones Martinianae") in Wadding, "Annales", X, 301) and Paul IV ("Ex Clementi", 1 July, 1555), gave rise to the appellation syndicus Martinianus in contradistinction to syndicus communis.
ref: 1912, Catholic Encyclopedia - Volume 14, page 385:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: A layperson who is given official responsibility for the finances, care, and civil administration of the nonreligious details of a convent or religious community.
Derived terms: syndicship
Related terms: syndical
syndicalism
syndicate
syndicateer
syndication
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