"catascopic" meaning in All languages combined

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      "form": "more catascopic",
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      "form": "most catascopic",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, M. Foucault, The Courage of Truth, page 171:",
          "text": "To be aggelos, to be an angel, to exercise this angelic office, this catascopic office of spy and scout, he really must be free of all attachments.",
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        "Related to spying or scouting."
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        {
          "ref": "2013, S.A. Paspalas, L.A. Beaumont, M.C. Miller, Zagora Archaeological Project, page 12:",
          "text": "New strategies were needed too, from the macroscopic (satellite imaging analysis), through the catascopic (aerial photography by kite; fig. 6, sidebar) to the microscopic (water-sieving and soil sampling [...]).",
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        "Related to aerial photography."
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      "id": "en-catascopic-en-adj-kCccYOfp"
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        {
          "word": "anascopic"
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        {
          "ref": "1980, Sociological Theories: Race and Colonialism, Unesco, page 185:",
          "text": "The functionalist approach of societies is catascopic. Social phenomena are conceived of as parts of a whole that are determined by this whole.",
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        }
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        "Of scientific forms of thinking which take wider contexts (groups, society, etc.) as a main frame of reference and study and explain individual behaviour in relationship to this broader context."
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  "word": "catascopic"
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      "form": "more catascopic",
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  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "2011, M. Foucault, The Courage of Truth, page 171:",
          "text": "To be aggelos, to be an angel, to exercise this angelic office, this catascopic office of spy and scout, he really must be free of all attachments.",
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        "Related to spying or scouting."
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        {
          "ref": "2013, S.A. Paspalas, L.A. Beaumont, M.C. Miller, Zagora Archaeological Project, page 12:",
          "text": "New strategies were needed too, from the macroscopic (satellite imaging analysis), through the catascopic (aerial photography by kite; fig. 6, sidebar) to the microscopic (water-sieving and soil sampling [...]).",
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        }
      ],
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        "Related to aerial photography."
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        {
          "ref": "1980, Sociological Theories: Race and Colonialism, Unesco, page 185:",
          "text": "The functionalist approach of societies is catascopic. Social phenomena are conceived of as parts of a whole that are determined by this whole.",
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        }
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        "Of scientific forms of thinking which take wider contexts (groups, society, etc.) as a main frame of reference and study and explain individual behaviour in relationship to this broader context."
      ]
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