Of the situation of the four elements, that is to say, the earth, the water, the air, and fire, and of their qualities and properties, and of the generation and corruption of things made of the Commixtion of them.
"A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume I."
R. Dodsley
Synchysis literally means confusion, or Commixtion; and, in grammar, is significant only of some poetical jumble of words, some verbal kink or snarl, which cannot be grammatically resolved or disentangled: as, "Is piety thus and pure devotion paid?"
"The Grammar of English Grammars"
Goold Brown