a. [See prec. and -ICAL.]
1. = SYNOPTIC 1.
1664. Evelyn, Kal. Hort., Introd. The Observations which … we have collected together, and here present … as so many Synoptical Tables.
a. 1755. Johnson, Plan Dict., Wks. 1787, IX. 177. In synoptical lexicons, where mutilated and doubtful languages are explained by their affinity to others more certain and extensive.
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., III. xxviii. 32. That you may have a synoptical view of the comparative size of the larger insects … I now lay before you a table of the dimensions.
1839. Hallam, Lit. Eur., III. III. iii. § 134. 117. The ninth chapter of the Leviathan contains a synoptical chart of human science.
1889. Science-Gossip, XXV. 157. To add to the value of this … useful volume we have also a copious synoptical index and general index.
2. = SYNOPTIC 2. rare.
1875. [see SYNOPTIST 1].
Hence Synoptically adv., in the way of a synopsis; so as to present a general view.
1667. Petty, in Sprat, Hist. R. Soc., 295. I shall more Synoptically here insert a Catalogue of all Dying Materials.
1882–3. Schaff’s Encycl. Relig. Knowl., II. 892/2. The best synoptically arranged text.
