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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SYN'COPE
SYN'COPIST, n. One who contracts words.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain [syn: faint, swoon, syncope, deliquium]
2: (phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle') [syn: syncope, syncopation]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Late Latin, from Greek synkop?, literally, cutting short, from synkoptein to cut short, from syn- + koptein to cut — more at capon Date: circa 1550 1. loss of consciousness resulting from insufficient blood flow to the brain ; faint 2. the loss of one or more sounds or letters in the interior of a word (as in fo'c'sle for forecastle) • syncopal adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 Gram. the omission of interior sounds or letters in a word (see SYNCOPATE 2). 2 Med. a temporary loss of consciousness caused by a fall in blood pressure. Derivatives: syncopal adj. Etymology: ME f. LL syncope f. Gk sugkope (as SYN-, kopto strike, cut off)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Syncope Syn"co*pe, n. [L. syncope, syncopa, Gr. ? a cutting up, a syncope; akin to ? to beat together, to cut up, cut short, weavy; sy`n with + ? to strike, cut.] 1. (Gram.) An elision or retrenchment of one or more letters or syllables from the middle of a word; as, ne'er for never, ev'ry for every. 2. (Mus.) Same as Syncopation. 3. (Med.) A fainting, or swooning. See Fainting. 4. A pause or cessation; suspension. [R.] Revely, and dance, and show, Suffer a syncope and solemn pause. --Cowper.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. (Gram.) Elision (in the middle of a word). 2. (Med.) Swoon, fainting, fainting fit.

Moby Thesaurus

KO, abbreviation, abridgment, abstract, andante tempo, apocope, aposiopesis, beat, blackout, catalepsy, catatonia, catatony, clipping, coma, compound time, compression, condensation, conspectus, contraction, crasis, curtailment, cutting, duple time, elision, ellipsis, epitome, faint, foreshortening, grayout, kayo, knockout, largo, lipothymia, lipothymy, march tempo, mixed times, nirvana, nirvana principle, nothingness, oblivion, obliviousness, precis, presto, pruning, rag, ragtime, recap, recapitulation, reduction, retrenchment, rubato, semiconsciousness, senselessness, sextuple time, shortening, simple time, sleep, stupor, summary, summation, swoon, syncopation, syneresis, synopsis, telescoping, tempo, tempo rubato, three-quarter time, time, time pattern, timing, triple time, triplet, truncation, two-four time, unconsciousness, waltz time