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Synoptic   /sɪnˈɑptɪk/   Listen
Synoptic

adjective
1.
Presenting a summary or general view of a whole.
2.
Presenting or taking the same point of view; used especially with regard to the first three gospels of the New Testament.  Synonym: synoptical.



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"Synoptic" Quotes from Famous Books



... value than hundreds of those so-called "anthropological treatises," which give detailed descriptions of single organs, or mathematical tables with series of numbers and what are claimed to be "exact analyses," but are devoid of synoptic ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others
... third stage, which we owe to John's Gospel. Here again he is true to his task of supplementing the narrative of the three synoptic Gospels. Remembering what I have said about the attitude of the disciples at the table, we can understand that Peter, if he occupied the principal place at the Lord's left, was less favourably situated for speaking to Christ than John, ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII • Alexander Maclaren


Words linked to "Synoptic" :   synopsis, same


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