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Definition of Panoptical
1. Adjective. Including everything visible in one view. "A panoptic stain used in microscopy"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Panoptical
Literary usage of Panoptical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Modern Painting by Richard Muther (1896)
"changed in expression according as they were seen in full face or in profile,
the panoptical surprises with the dog in the niche at which visitors were to ..."
2. Females and Their Diseases: A Series of Letters to His Class by Charles Delucena Meigs (1848)
"You will discover them early, if you be really panoptical in your vigilance— and
you will put an end to the second and to the third attacks as easily as you ..."
3. Obstetrics, the science and the art by Charles Delucena Meigs (1867)
"Wherefore, T say, let the Student watch—let him watch with a panoptical vigilance;
and if the chill, the ague, and the pain—if the diagnostic say or even ..."
4. Secrets of the Prison-house: Or, Gaol Studies and Sketches by Arthur Griffiths (1894)
"Fifteen of those cellular prisons are radiating and two " panoptical" ; the
largest is that of Madrid, completed in 1883 ; the latest that of San Sebastian, ..."
5. The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"The modern ideal of transparency, of a panoptical world, is as frightening as it
is impossible to realize. In its "towering infernos," nobody can change the ..."
6. Woman; Her Diseases and Remedies: A Series of Letters to His Class by Charles Delucena Meigs (1851)
"You will discover them early, if you be really panoptical in your vigilance—and
you will put an end to the second and to the third attacks as easily as you ..."
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