synodical

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There are usually two or three synodical sessions per year, which are officially opened by the monarch.

From The Guardian • Feb. 4, 2020

He brushed up his reading technique on the minutes of synodical conferences.

From Time Magazine Archive

If the interval of periodic time of a planet, or comet, be taken in reference to its passages through either of the nodes, its circuit is called synodical.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

Against this, Sophronius, having become patriarch of Jerusalem, published his synodical letter quoted above.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Allies, Thomas W.

Both Galileo and Scheiner spoke of the apparent or "synodical" period, which is about one and a third days longer than the true or "sidereal" one.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)