Symphytism

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Symphytism \Sym"phy*tism\, n. [Gr. ? grown together.]
     Coalescence; a growing into one with another word. [R.]
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           Some of the phrasal adverbs have assumed the form of
           single words, by that symphytism which naturally


           attaches these light elements to each other. --Earle.
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