Kolt cursed as he stumbled in the darkness, breaking into a run to the flickering fires he saw in the distance. There were still fires burning. He'd been so syncategorematic about the uselessness of trying to get back to camp, that to see the light was a surprise. He would have thought Yorvet would have ordered the fires doused as soon as he appeared in camp. Why was Yorvet giving him the chance to remain human? His hand drifted down to the lunette blade, clenching on the hilt. Why? Why do this? Was it some sort of backhanded training?
Syncategorematic -forming a meaningful expression only in conjunction with a denoatitve expression (as a content word).
Added Info -In ancient Greek logic, kategorema referred to something that was affirmed or denied about the subject in a proposition. For instance, in "the paper is white," "whiteness" would be the kategorema. Seventeenth-century logicians extended this concept, which they called categorem, to cover the subject of the proposition as well. So, in the proposition "All men are mortal," "mortality" is a categorem and so is "man." But what about "all"? Words like "all" that signify quantity (as well as words tha tfunction as adverbs, prepositions, or conjunctions) are syncategormemata--that is, they are words that have meaning in propositions only when used in conjunction "with" other words. ("Syn-" means "with.")
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