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- noun Obsolete form of
optics .
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Examples
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Mekkahuntakittens has teh up grayddd sybah opticks ffor betta pray finedengs.
BOWIE CAT - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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Certainly there is no happiness within this circle of flesh; nor is it in the opticks of these eyes to behold felicity.
Religio Medici 2007
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BEHOLD thyself by inward opticks and the crystalline of thy soul.
Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863
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They nature's king through nature's opticks view'd;
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746
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These are hyper-physical opticks, and drawn from the heavens.
Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects John Aubrey 1661
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Certainly there is no happiness within this circle of flesh; nor is it in the opticks of these eyes to behold felicity.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643
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I grant that two bodies placed beyond the tenth sphear, or in a vacuity, according to Aristotles Philosophy, could not behold each other, because there wants a body or Medium to hand and transport the visible rays of the object unto the sense; but when there shall be a general defect of either Medium to convey, or light to prepare and dispose that Medium, and yet a perfect vision, we must suspend the rules of our Philosophy, and make all good by a more absolute piece of opticks.
Paras 36-70 1909
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I grant that two bodies placed beyond the tenth sphere, or in a vacuity, according to Aristotle's philosophy, could not behold each other, because there wants a body or medium to hand and transport the visible rays of the object unto the sense; but when there shall be a general defect of either medium to convey, or light to prepare and dispose that medium, and yet a perfect vision, we must suspend the rules of our philosophy, and make all good by a more absolute piece of opticks.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643
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To turn their opticks in upon't; "or, in plain English, had an _invisible_ eye.
The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life Robert Cruikshank 1828
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