synophyty (sin of it i)

In bot., the cohesion of several embryos. Cooke. synopsis (si-nop's is), n.; pl. synopses (-sēz). [= Sp. sinopsis = Pg. synopsis = It. sino i, 6138 view of some subject; a compendium of heads or short paragraphs so arranged as to afford a view of the whole or of principal parts of a matter under consideration; a conspectus. That the reader may see in one view the exactne of the method, as well as the force of argument, I shall here draw up a short synopsis of this epistle. War burton , On Pope's E ay on Man. I am now upon a methodical Synopsis of all British Animals excepting Insects, and it will be a general Synops . of Quadrupeds. Ray, in Ellis's Lit. Letters, p. 199. 2. In the Gr. Ch., a prayer-book for the use of the laity, of the same character as that described under anthology, 3. =Syn. 1. Compendium, Abstract, etc. See abridgment. synoptic (si-nop'tik), a, and n. [= F. synop tique = Sp. = Pg. synoptico = It. tico, II. n. One of the synoptic gospels; also, one of the writers of the synoptic gospels; a synoptist. Yet the Tübingen profe ors and our Liberal newspapers must surely have something to go upon when they declare that the Jesus of the Fourth Gospel speaks quite differently from the Jesus of the Synoptics , and propound their theory of the Gnostic philosopher inventing, with profoundly calculated art, his fancy Gospel. M. Arnold, God and the Bible, vi. § 5. The real difference between John and the Synoptics , on this most decisive point, amounts to this: while these last have handed down to us but a single example of this form of language, John has preserved for us several examples selected with a particular purpose. Bibliotheca Sacra , XLV. 733. synoptical (si-nop'ti-kal), a. [ lyzed to illustrate the relationship of its several components to one another. Such tables often proceed upon the dichotomous plan of presenting in succe ion alternatives of two (or more) characters, only one of which the specimen in hand should exhibit, as the "ovary inferior" and "ovary superior" in case of a plant; but the tabulation may be made in any way which best subserves the desired purpose in different cases. Some are natural analyses, others wholly artificial; the former are the more imp or tant and really instructive, the latter the most convenient and immediately helpful. Some combine these incom patible features as far as po ible; and all are constantly used in systematic treatises, manuals, and text-books. They are often called keys. synoptically (si-nop'ti-kal-i), adv. In a synoptical manner; in such a manner as to present a general view in a short compa . I shall more synoptically here insert a catalogue of all dyeing materials. Sir W. Petty , in Sprat's Hist. Royal Soc., p. 295.