syncretic
adjective
combining or bringing together different philosophical, religious, or cultural principles and practices.
syncretical
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a variation of
syncretic.
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a word derived from
syncretism.
syncretismnounthe attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties, as in philosophy or religion.
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Asia Minor was then the theatre of a strange movement of syncretical philosophy; all the germs of Gnosticism existed there already.
From The Life of Jesus by Ernest Renan
