presbyopic, a. (n.)
(-ˈɒpɪk)
[f. as prec. + -ic.]
Pertaining to or affected with presbyopia. (In the same sense ‖ presbyops has been used).
| 1801 Home in Phil. Trans. XCII. 6, I adapted the optometer..to presbyopic eyes. [1803 tr. Heberden's Comm. lxvi. (ed. 2) 330 A violent giddiness has suddenly made a person presbyops, or long sighted.] 1881 Anderson in Nature 27 Oct. 618/2 Suppose a man has become presbyopic, i.e. his accommodation has gradually become stiff, and its range reduced. |
b. as n. A person affected with presbyopia.
| 1864 tr. Donders' Accom. & Refract. Eye 308 Often hyperpresbyopics and presbyopics are met with in this group. |