synergist
Americannoun
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Physiology, Medicine/Medical. a body organ, medicine, etc., that cooperates with another or others to produce or enhance an effect.
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Chemistry, Pharmacology. any admixture to a substance for increasing the effectiveness of one or more of its properties.
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Theology. a person who holds the doctrine of synergism.
noun
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a drug, muscle, etc, that increases the action of another
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Christian theol an upholder of synergism
adjective
Etymology
Origin of synergist
1650–60; < New Latin synergista < Greek synerg ( ós ) ( see synergism) + New Latin -ista -ist
Example Sentences
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The solution is to ensure that enough leaders at your company leaven their Visionary- or Operator- or Processor-ness with a touch of a fourth personality McKeown calls the Synergist.
From Inc • Apr. 15, 2013
Executives with a strong undertone of Synergist are hard to come by, to be sure.
From Inc • Apr. 15, 2013
Planck though unwilling to relegate Strigel to the Pelagians, does not hesitate to put him down as a thoroughgoing Synergist.
From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by Bente, F. (Friedrich)
The question of man's co-operation in his conversion gave rise to what was known as the /Synergist/ controversy.
From History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 1 by MacCaffrey, James
Melanchthon, in an endeavor to reconcile the contradictions of this discordant system, unwittingly gave rise to the so-called Synergist dispute.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur
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