synteresis

[sin-tuh-ree-sis]

noun

1. synderesis.

Example Sentences

Synteresis, sin-tē-rē′sis, n. preventive treatment, prophylaxis.—adj.

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Synteresis, and Moral Theology, 2; directs the moral virtues, 1631 a.

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Synteresis is concerned with necessary principles, and the moral virtues give a uniform and steady inclination to follow the mean of right reason, but neither the one nor the other can indicate how principles are to be applied or how inclinations are to be put in practice.

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That horrible regenerationist literature, almost all of it an imposture, which the loss of our last American colonies provoked, led us into the pedantry of extolling persevering and silent effort—and this with great vociferation, vociferating silence—of extolling prudence, exactitude, moderation, spiritual fortitude, synteresis, equanimity, the social virtues, and the chiefest advocates of them were those of us who lacked them most.

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The "synteresis" of Alexander of Hales, Bonaventura, Albertus Magnus, and Thomas Aquinas, was substantially the same.

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