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Scioptic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pertaining to the camera obscura, or to the art of exhibiting images through a hole in a darkened room.

Scioptic [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A sphere or globe with a lens made to turn like the eye; used in experiments with the camera obscura.

Scioptic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to an optical arrangement for forming images in a darkened room, usually called scioptic ball.

Sciopticon [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A kind of magic lantern.

Scioptics [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The science of exhibiting images of external objects, received through a double convex glass into a darkened room.

2. In law, a judicial writ summoning a person to show cause to the court why something should not be done, as to require sureties to show cause why the plaintiff should not have execution against them for debt and damages, or to require a third person to show cause why goods in his hands by replevin, should not be delivered to satisfy the execution, etc.

Scioptics [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The art or process of exhibiting luminous images, especially those of external objects, in a darkened room, by arrangements of lenses or mirrors.