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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Synodic  \Syn*od"ic\,  Synodical  \Syn*od"ic*al\,  a.  [L.  synodicus 
  Gr  ?:  cf  F.  synodique.] 
  1.  (Eccl.)  Of  or  pertaining  to  a  synod;  transacted  in  or 
  authorized  by  a  synod;  as  synodical  proceedings  or 
  forms.  ``A  synodical  epistle.''  --Bp.  Stillingfleet 
 
  2.  (Astron.)  Pertaining  to  conjunction,  especially  to  the 
  period  between  two  successive  conjunctions;  extending  from 
  one  conjunction,  as  of  the  moon  or  a  planet  with  the  sun, 
  to  the  next  as  a  synodical  month  (see  Lunar  month,  under 
  {Month});  the  synodical  revolution  of  the  moon  or  a 
  planet. 

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