Synoptical in A Sentence

    1

    A synoptical representation of the present state of knowledge would be expressed by a network rather than by a tree.

    2

    All the historical books were reprinted in one volume in 1 777, the synoptical arrangement of the Gospels having been abandoned as inconvenient.

    3

    Eichhorn in favour of the "borrowing hypothesis" of the origin of the synoptical gospels, maintaining the priority of Matthew, the present Greek text having been the original.

    4

    Minot (1844-1850); see also Mr Bancroft Davis's Notes upon the Treaties of the United States with other Powers, preceded by a list of the Treaties and Conventions with Foreign Powers, chronologically arranged and followed by an Analytical Index and a Synoptical Index of the Treaties (1873).

    5

    Whatever historical elements may be preserved in Christ's discourses as given in the Fourth Gospel, these discourses fit into the author's type of thought better than into the synoptical framework.

    6

    Yet the two epistles do not follow the same course of thought, and their contents cannot be successfully exhibited in a common synoptical abstract.