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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Gr. [GREEK];

σύν

with + [GREEK] a predicate. See

, and

(Logic)

Not capable of being used as a term by itself; – said of words, as an adverb or preposition.

syncategorematic ‎(comparative more syncategorematic, superlative most syncategorematic)

(linguistics, of a term) Needing other terms in order to make a meaningful constituent of language.
In a logical theory, tautologies could be regarded as being syncategorematic and contingencies as being categorematic.‎
- 2009, MacFarlane, John, “Logical Constants”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, retrieved 2012-05-07:
  
  In sum, it is not clear how the distinction between categorematic and syncategorematic terms, so natural in the framework of a term logic, can be extended to a post-Fregean function/argument conception of propositional structure.

needing other terms