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bioscope|ˈbaɪəskəʊp|
[See bio- and -scope.]
†1. A view or survey of life. Obs.
1812G. Penn (title) The Bioscope, or Dial of Life, explained. 1824W. Bayley (title) Bagman's Bioscope: Various Views of Men and Manners.
2. An earlier form of cinematograph (cf. biograph n. 2); retained in South Africa as the usual term for a cinema or a moving film.
1897Wall's Dict. Photogr. (ed. 7) 75 Bioscope. See Zoetrope. 1901Daily Chron. 27 Dec. 6/1 The Bioscope views are not so much incidents of the day as exciting adventures. 1904J. Joyce Let. 28 Dec. (1966) II. 75 The other evening we went to a bioscope. There were a series of pictures about betrayed Gretchen. 1925Public Opinion 4 Sept. 234/3 No use to try and blame your poor digestion Nor yet the bioscope's unnerving scene. 1968D. Braithwaite Fairground Archit. 21 In the early 1900's there were ‘Bioscope Shows’.
1908Cape Times 14 Jan. 6 The Electro-Chrono (‘King of Bioscopes’). A Machine for exhibiting Living Pictures of exceptional brilliance. Ibid. 22 Jan 6 The Bioscope will project ‘The Boxer Rebellion in China’. 1915The Cape I. no. 10. p. 11 They extended to her facetious invitations to the theatre and the bioscope. 1919S. G. Millin Dark River xxii. §2. 148 The Novelty was one of the Cape Town bioscopes that boasted a small orchestra and occasional variety turns. 1935Quandary Sept. 20 When a bioscope company comes to the village. 1950L. G. Green Land of Afternoon i. 12 He denounced newspapers and bioscopes. 1958Observer 12 Jan. 15/4, I saw the film..on the quivering screen of a Central African bioscope.
Hence bioˈscopic a.
1903Athenæum 12 Dec. 799/1 The utility of the bioscopic camera in zoological work. 1928Daily Tel. 18 Sept. 6 It is excellent to have bioscopic presentations of the eminent, but Herr Ludwig's film is too long. |