syndic
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
government
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).
Inflected forms:
form: syndics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: syndick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A government official having different duties depending on the country; also, a magistrate, especially one of the Chief Magistrates of Geneva, Switzerland.
pos: noun
examples: The Bailiffes and Syndicks of Merindoll appeare the ſecond time.
[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; […]
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.
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.
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.
In 1760 one Intendant went so far as to dissolve the militia altogether and appointed syndics to carry on the local government.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: In France, syndics are appointed by the creditors of a bankrupt to manage the property.
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.
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; […]"
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.
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.
gloss: A layperson who is given official responsibility for the finances, care, and civil administration of the nonreligious details of a convent or religious community.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Related words: syndical
syndicalism
syndicate
syndicateer
syndication
syndicator
official
Derived words: syndicship
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