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单词 engyscope
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engyscopen.

/ˈɛndʒɪskəʊp/
Forms: Also 1800s (incorrectly) engiscope.
Etymology: < Greek ἐγγύς near at hand + -σκοπος looker: see -scope comb. form.
a. In 17th and 18th cent.: = microscope n. Obsolete.
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glass1646
microscope1648
engyscope1685
engyscope1832
X-ray microscope1948
1685 R. Boyle Short Mem. Hist. Mineral Waters 73 With differing Engyscopes, and in differing Lights.
1692 Coles's Eng. Dict. (new ed.) Engyscope, an Instrument to discern the proportion of the smallest things.
1697 J. Evelyn Numismata iv. 167 Engyscops, Microscops, and other Optick Glasses.
1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Engyscope..the same as a microscope.
b. Subsequently variously employed in narrower sense. Goring (1830) applied it to denote a compound microscope of any kind; but as the term was most frequently used by him in his description of the Amician and similar reflecting microscopes, it is now commonly understood as a distinctive name of that class of instruments.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > magnification or magnifying instruments > [noun] > microscope
glass1646
microscope1648
engyscope1685
engyscope1832
X-ray microscope1948
1832 Optic Instr. (Usef. Knowl. Soc.) xiv. §92. 48 The section of this Engiscope.
1837 C. R. Goring & A. Pritchard Micrographia 70 The ocular end of the engiscope.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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