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topographical, a.|tɒpəʊˈgræfɪkəl|
[f. as prec. + -al1: see -ical.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or dealing with topography.
1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent Introd. (1826) 6 Which collection (bicause it was digested into Titles by order of Alphabet, and concerned the description of places) I called a Topographicall Dictionarie. a1586Sidney Lett. Misc. Wks. (1829) 280 The topographical description of each country. a1646J. Gregory Maps & Charts Posth. (1650) 323 A particular Description and Topographical Table of Middlesex. 1710Stillingfleet's Wks., Life 56 An unusual variety of.. topographical observations. 1803Wellington in Gurw. Desp. (1837) II. 104, I am also desirous of having..any general topographical account of the country. 1860Maury Phys. Geog. Sea (Low) xxi. §871 The topographical features and the climates of the antarctic regions.
†b. topographical instrument, the name given by Digges to a combined surveying instrument, such as is now called a theodolite. Obs.
1571Digges Pantom. i. xxxiv. K iij b, Set vp your Instrument Topographicall on his staffe. 1611A. Hopton Topogr. Glass vi. 27 To work as the Theodelitus, and Topographicall Instrument... If you make this instrument like to that which Maister Digges called the Topographical Instrument, then is there a Boxe and a Needle..in the center of the Planisphere, over which there doth stand a perpendicular, whereon is placed a Semicircle..to move about with the Alhidada.
2. Pertaining to the description of the parts or regions of the body: cf. topography 3.
1857Dunglison Med. Lex. s.v. Anatomy, Topographical anatomy. 1890Billings Med. Dict. s.v. Anatomy, Topographical anatomy, describing them [the organs] by regions. |