synopticadj.n.
/sɪˈnɒptɪk/ 1.
a. Of a table, chart, etc.: Pertaining to or forming a synopsis; furnishing a general view of some subject; spec. depicting or dealing with weather conditions over a large area at the same point in time.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > [adjective] > synoptical
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synoptic1764
capitulatory1768
précised1977
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > [adjective] > dealing with conditions over a large area
synoptic1868
1764 Philos. Trans. 1763 (Royal Soc.) 53 168 I have..computed them again, and they are as in the following synoptic table.
1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xxii. 552 The instrument is called a Synoptic scale of Chemical Equivalents, or more usually Wollaston's Scale.
1851 J. P. Nichol Archit. Heavens (ed. 9) 193 Madler's synoptic view of what he considers established.
1861 F. Galton (title) Synchronous weather chart of England.]
1868 Symons's Monthly Meteorol. Mag. III. 144 It is now fourteen years since, impressed with the importance of synoptic weather charts,..I attempted to bring out a series of such charts [of the Indian Ocean].
1887 R. Abercromby Weather i. 8 Such a chart is called a ‘synoptic chart’, because it enables the meteorologist to take a general view, as it were, over a large area.
1909 A. C. Scott Notes Meteorol. & Weather Forecasting 1 Within the last 40 years the Synoptic method of weather-charting has been introduced, which has changed the whole aspect of Meteorology.
1939 Geogr. Jrnl. 94 135 Synoptic meteorology (i.e. the science of synchronous weather charts).
1963 G. L. Pickard Descriptive Physical Oceanogr. vi. 74 It is..impracticable to obtain a truly simultaneous picture of the ocean, and the synoptic oceanographer has to make the assumption that when he analyses them the data from his cruise or cruises may be considered as simultaneous.
1974 Nature 1 Mar. 87/3 Synoptic climatology is essentially a practical subject.
b. Of a mental act or faculty, conduct, etc.: Pertaining to, involving, or taking a combined or comprehensive mental view of something.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > absence of prejudice > [adjective]
unpossesseda1586
affectionless1595
respectless1598
unprejudicating1602
spacious1609
unprejudicate1609
unprejudicated1609
undifferencing?1624
unprepossessed1629
imprejudicate1640
unprejudiced1641
unprejudicial1641
unpreoccupated1641
unsuperstitious1652
moderate1654
unforestalled1657
unengaged1659
equipondious1661
uncaptivated1678
unbiased1686
unbigoted1711
Whiggish1715
open-minded1748
progressive1780
liberal1781
prejudiceless1830
broad1832
great-eyed1850
synoptic1852
undogmatic1857
undogmatical1863
superstitionless1879
race-blind1900
personless1932
verlig1968
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [adjective] > of poetic faculty: comprehensive
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1852 J. Martineau Unity of Mind in Ess. (1891) III. 105 Without this synoptic progress, the occupation of the intellect would be gone.
1899 Speaker 11 Nov. 135/1 That synoptic statesmanship which has done so much for this branch of education in France.
1900 E. Holmes What is Poetry? 28 The poet fuses them [sc. phenomena] by the force of his emotion..poetic emotion being essentially a synoptic faculty.
2.
a. Applied distinctively to the first three Gospels (viz. of Matthew, Mark, and Luke) as giving an account of the events from the same point of view or under the same general aspect. Also transferred pertaining or relating to these Gospels.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > New Testament > Gospel > [adjective] > synoptic
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synoptical1872
synoptistic1879
1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iii. §17. 45 The Book of Deuteronomy seems to bear something of the same relation to the preceding Four that the Gospel of St. John does to the Synoptic Three.
1861 R. C. Trench Comm. Epist. 7 Churches Asia 163 The words of Christ as recorded in the Gospels, in the three synoptic Gospels above all.
1899 J. C. Hawkins Horae Synopticae Pref. p. v The origin, mode of composition, and mutual relations of the three Synoptic Gospels form so obscure and so complex a subject of enquiry that it has come to be generally known as the ‘Synoptic Problem’.
b. as n. Any one of the Synoptic Gospels (or of their writers = synoptist n. 1). Usually in plural.
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1858 J. Martineau Stud. Christianity 257 The Synoptics..which present only varieties of the same fundamental tradition.
1874 M. Arnold in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 815 The Fourth Gospel..puts the clearance [of the temple] at the beginning of Christ's career, the synoptics put it at the end.
1875 E. White Life in Christ iii. xvii The sublime scenes of His Baptism, and of His Transfiguration..when the synoptics tell us that God spoke of Him as His ‘Beloved Son’.
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