teleˈscopically, adv.
[f. telescopic, -al: see -ically.]
In a telescopic manner.
1. By or as by means of a telescope; as, or as if, seen through a telescope.
| 1846 Worcester, Telescopically, by use of a telescope. 1867–77 G. Chambers Astron. i. i. 7 When telescopically examined. 1879 Newcomb & Holden Astron. 373 Telescopically..we might classify them with Mercury and Venus. |
2. In the manner of the tubes of a hand-telescope; by the sliding of one part within another.
| 1894 Baring-Gould Queen of L. I. vi. 67 It appeared as though the pole were collapsing telescopically. 1898 Sedgwick Text-bk. Zool. I. viii. 299 The foot or pseudopodium [in Rotifera] may be jointed, and the joints are often telescopically retractile. |