thermoscopic, a.
(θɜːməʊˈskɒpɪk)
[f. prec. + -ic.]
Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a thermoscope.
| 1730 Phil. Trans. XXXVI. 254 The Severity of the Weather did not cease;..the Spirit of Wine, in the English Thermometer, in a Morning always stood at, or under the 80th Deg. of the Thermoscopick Scale. 1843 Grove Corr. Phys. Forces (1846) 17 Of which heat no evidence can be afforded by any thermoscopic test. 1854 J. Scoffern in Orr's Circ. Sc., Chem. 121 Thermometric and thermoscopic instruments. |
So thermoˈscopical a., in same sense; whence thermoˈscopically adv.
| 1670 Phil. Trans. V. p. iv, The Thermoscopical Measures of Warmth and Frigidity. 1730 Ibid. XXXVI. 254 From Thermoscopical Observations. 1895 Funk's Stand. Dict., Thermoscopically. |