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kaleidoˈscopical, a.
[See -ical.]
= prec.
1858Times 1 Dec. 8/3 Brilliant, and prismatic, and kaleidoscopical are the intellects. 1861T. L. Peacock Gryll Grange xiv. 114 His imagination..is overloaded with minutiæ and kaleidoscopical colours.
Hence kaleidoˈscopically adv., after the manner of a kaleidoscope, with continual changes.
1866Sat. Rev. 7 Apr. 400 Mr. Gladstone is always in earnest..But then he is so kaleidoscopically sincere. 1891T. Hardy Life's Little Ironies (1894) 91 The long plate⁓glass mirrors..flashed the gyrating personages and hobby⁓horses kaleidoscopically into his eyes. |