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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Synoptic \Syn*op"tic\, n.
One of the first three Gospels of the New Testament. See
{Synoptist}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Synoptic \Syn*op"tic\, Synoptical \Syn*op"tic*al\, a. [Gr. ?:
cf F. synoptique See {Synopsis}.]
Affording a general view of the whole, or of the principal
parts of a thing as a synoptic table; a synoptical
statement of an argument. ``The synoptic Gospels.'' --Alford.
-- {Syn*op"tic*al*ly}, adv
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
synoptic
adj 1: presenting a summary or general view of a whole; "a synoptic
presentation of a physical theory"
2: presenting or taking the same point of view; used especially
of the first three gospels of the New Testament; "the
synoptic Gospels" [syn: {synoptical}]
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