Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as dioptric.

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  • adjective Alternative form of dioptric.

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Examples

  • You are to be made expert in "graving, etching, carving, embossing, and moulding in sundry matters," in "grinding of glasses dioptrical and catoptrical," in "navarchy and making models for building and rigging of ships," in "anatomy, making skeletons, and excarnating bowels;" but you miss all that Milton would have taught you of Latin and

    The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864

  • “grinding of glasses dioptrical and catoptrical,” in “navarchy and making models for building and rigging of ships,” in “anatomy, making skeletons, and excarnating bowels;” but you miss all that Milton would have taught you of Latin and Greek, Poetry and Philosophy, Italian and Hebrew, moral magnanimity and spiritual elevation, the History of Nations, and the ways of God to men.

    The Life of John Milton Masson, David, 1822-1907 1859

  • - x - Tran/lation of Scheffer's treatife on dioptrical telefcopes, 8vo.

    The Monthly Review 1786

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