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myopic, a. (n.) Path.|maɪˈɒpɪk| [f. myope or myopia + -ic.] a. Of, relating to, or affected with myopia; short-sighted; near-sighted.
1800Young in Phil. Trans. XCI. 36 The focal length of spectacles required for myopic or presbyopic eyes. 1846Mrs. Gore Eng. Char. (1852) 91 He was repeatedly required at his own balls to call up carriages..for fashionable ladies, myopic enough to mistake him for his delegate. 1849–52Todd's Cycl. Anat. IV. 1467/1 The French glasses, whether presbyopic or myopic. 1887Brit. Med. Jrnl. 21 May 1120/1 This treatment is safe in myopes who have attained the age of puberty, and have not large myopic crescents. fig.1891Meredith One of our Conq. III. i. 8 Your Moralist is a myopic preacher. 1955Sci. Amer. Oct. 103/1 Until Maupertuis's death in 1759 Voltaire did not relent in his flood of unmerciful, unscrupulous and myopic ridicule. 1972G. Durrell Catch me a Colobus v. 82 For some considerable time I had been endeavouring to persuade the BBC to film an animal-collecting trip, but they had been very myopic about the whole thing. 1975Times 3 July 15/2 The Inner London Education Authority..appears to share this myopic vision of the troubles at North London Polytechnic. b. absol. and n.
1883Encycl. Brit. XVI. 259/1 For the myopic who can see an object clearly at 4 inches distance. Ibid. XVII. 785/1 All myopics should work in a good light. So myˈopical a.; hence myˈopically adv., like a short-sighted person.
1748Phil. Trans. XLV. 413 The Eye is myopical, and she sees the right Side of Objects a little darkened. 1830Fraser's Mag. II. 95 A myopical..race, of most Lilliputian vision. 1901G. Gissing Our Friend the Charlatan x, He..blinked myopically at his visitors before rising. |