synoptistn.
/sɪˈnɒptɪst/ 1. Any one of the writers of the Synoptic Gospels: see synoptic adj. 2 (Usually in plural.)
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1846 ‘G. Eliot’ tr. D. F. Strauss Life Jesus II. ii. vi. 135 The mode in which the synoptists arrange the sayings of Jesus.
1860 B. F. Westcott Introd. Study Gospels v. 262 The Synoptists, it is said, describe the public ministry of Christ as extending only over one year.
1875 B. F. Westcott Introd. Study Gospels (ed. 5) iii. 166 The terms Synoptist, Synoptical, as applied to the first three Evangelists appear to date from the time of Griesbach, though they were brought into general use by Neander.
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Christianity I. iv. xix. 493 Those who hold, in despite of the plain evidence of the Synoptists, and still more of St. John, that our Lord's ‘brethren’ were among the number of His Apostles.
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2. One who compiles a synopsis. rare. (Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.)
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synopˈtistic adj. = synoptic adj. 2.
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1879 E. A. Abbott in Encycl. Brit. X. 805/2 The author of the Fourth Gospel..speaks of ‘the Jews’ as an alien race..; but this is not in the manner of the synoptistic tradition.
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