autopticaladj.

1649 W. Charleton tr. J. B. van Helmont Ternary of Paradoxes 78 The Magnetisme is, as by the most convenient vehicle, transported and wafted to an object at vast distance. This is made good by an autopticall demonstration [L. probatur id ad oculum].

1676 J. Evelyn Philos. Disc. Earth 106 My Autoptical observations of the several Earths.

1766 R. B. Cheston Pathol. Inq. & Observ. Surg. 49 Diseases of the Abdomen..are so situated that we cannot reap the Benefit of an autoptical Demonstration.

1830 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 3 299 The author distinctly states, from autoptical experience, that ‘the bird continued very gradually to moult throughout the summer and winter’.

1861 Jrnl. Sacred Lit. 14 168 The style changes from the autoptical to the purely historical.

1906 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 27 110 No history of Greek literature can be autoptical throughout.

1946 Mod. Lang. Rev. 41 50 Wilhelm Grimm..had expressed his belief in the necessity of backing the book study of Irish folklore by autoptical knowledge of the living tradition.

2008 S. Campana Seeing Unseen 14 The information recoverable through autoptical analysis and examination of various..characteristics of the soil make it possible to locate aspects of the evidence more precisely.