systasis

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English

Etymology

From post-classical Latin systasis, and its source, Ancient Greek σύστασις (sústasis, composition, construction), from συν- (sun-, syn-) + στάσις (stásis, stasis).

Pronunciation

Noun

systasis (plural systases)

  1. The combination of different elements; synthesis.
  2. (obsolete, rare) A union or confederation.
    • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, page 328:
      The municipal army […] is a worse preservative of a general constitution, than the systasis of Crete, or the confederation of Poland.