microscopicaladj.

1663 J. Beale Let. 14 Dec. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) II. 231 Such owles, as cannot behold the daylight of your Microscopicall, Magneticall, Chymicall, & Mathematicall discoveryes, may taste the benefit of your condescensions in Georgicall & rusticall affayres.

1664 J. Evelyn Sylva i. 5 Some..might here recommend to us a more accurate Microscopical examen.

1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 28 The Microscopical view of the Edges of Rasors.

1667 J. Glanvill Philos. Considerations Witches 9 The certainty of which I believe the improvement of microscopical observations will discover.

1746 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 48/1 Microscopical discoveries, with plates, pr. 3s. 6d.

1796 Bp. R. Watson Apol. for Bible (ed. 2) ix. 94 The microscopical discoveries of modern times.

1879 F. Rutley Study of Rocks x. 104 Unsatisfactory in the present state of microscopical knowledge.

1924 R. H. Greaves & H. Wrighton Pract. Microsc. Metallogr. ix. 78 Seams show a similar microscopical appearance to rokes and are caused in rolling billets or bars by one portion of the metal folding over another.

1956 Nature 18 Feb. 330/1 The cells were smeared on microscopical slides coated with egg-albumin or human serum.

1985 B. Unsworth Stone Virgin 135 Microscopical and chemical analysis of paint samples have revealed just about all the pigments available at the time.

1992 Representations No. 40. 36 Eighteenth-century microscopical investigations showed how hopeless it is to place the line between animal and human.

1663 R. Hooke in T. Birch Hist. Royal Soc. (1756) I. 261 All the smaller and (if I may so call those which are only to be seen by a good glass) microscopical pores of it [sc. a piece of petrified wood] appear..perfectly like the microscopical pores of several kinds of wood.

1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 28 The Author hath not only given proof of his singular skil in delineating all sorts of bodies (he having drawn all the Schemes of these 60 microscopical objects with his own hand).

1676 R. Hooke Diary 1 Jan. (1935) 207 There was upon every great plant a herball of smaller plants microscopicall growing on them and a heard of various animalls microscopicall, ranging among them.

1771 W. Jones Zoologia Ethica 76 The microscopical feathers upon the wing of a moth.

1850 I. Mayhew Pop. Educ. 316 In his rural walks he..can..contemplate..their microscopical beauties; their orders, genera, and species.

1871 G. Hartwig Subterranean World ii. 10 The aggregated remains of microscopical animals.

1880 A. Günther Introd. Study of Fishes 114 It is the membrana argentea, and composed of microscopical crystals.

1937 W. Herrod-Hempsall Bee-keeping II. xxx. 1427 Nosema Disease is caused by a microscopical animal parasite (Nosema apis) infesting the food canal of the bee.

1994 Jrnl. Philos. 91 408 Here it seems we can predict the movements..of ships and navies—thousands of people, tons of materiel [sic]—across scattered seas and tributaries. Folk psychology's successes seem microscopical by comparison.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxiii. 140 And if by the help of such Microscopical Eyes, (if I may so call them,) a Man could penetrate farther than ordinary into the..radical Texture of Bodies.

1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §lxxxvi. 98 The Minimum Visibile is never Greater or Lesser, but in all Cases constantly the same. And in the Case of Microscopical Eyes, I see only this difference.