"synoptic" is a correct word in written English.
You can use it to refer to something consisting of a summary or comprehensive view, especially of a text or group of texts. For example, you could say "This synoptic overview outlines the main points discussed in the report."
In 1975 he introduced, in place of the runic circles, figures and barographs on synoptic maps, magnetic picture-symbols about the size of his hand.
Tell that to Ann-Marie Ellis, one of Mr Bridges' pupils at Wrekin, who, after getting top marks in all three of her AS levels and two of her subsequent A-levels, was awarded a U for her synoptic paper (the one which tested her overall mastery of the subject), bringing her final grade down to a B. At least she was not alone.
As a weather observer, his job was to plot synoptic maps and launch wind balloons into the deep blue North African sky.
This school starts by making an undeniable point: the contrast in tone between the "synoptic" gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke which emphasise the story of Jesus's life as a teacher and healer and the mystical language of John's gospel (as well as many of the Pauline epistles) which meditate on the divinity of Christ rather than the particular things he did or said.
Indeed, only universal history is capable of adequately treating Rome's rise to world power the historian's synoptic view matches the organic character of history itself: What gives my work its peculiar quality, and is nowadays most remarkable, is this.
The Synoptic problem is one of literary or of source criticism and deals with the written sources after compilation and redaction.
Another movement in synoptic research and also research including John is that which concentrates rather on the treatment of gospels as a whole, formally and theologically, with patterns or cycles to be investigated.
This agreement occurs to far too great an extent to be accounted for in translations and revisions, not to mention the agreement in the order of the various pericopes as they are viewed in a synoptic parallel arrangement.
The Synoptic writers describe a single climactic visit of Jesus to Jerusalem at the end of his career; but John may be right (implicitly supported by Luke 13:7) in representing his visits as more frequent and the period of ministry as lasting more than a single year.
Accordingly, they attempt to construct theories that are synoptic, descriptively accurate, explanatorily powerful, and in all other respects rationally defensible.
The 1827 publication of Ampère's synoptic Mémoire brought to a close his feverish work over the previous seven years on the new science of electrodynamics.
