Meanings
adjectivetelescopical (not comparable)
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of telescopic.
[…] I can do more with a Quadrant, Sextant or Octant, of 1 foot Radius, furniſhed with Teleſcopical Sights and Screws, then ^([sic]) can poſſibly be done with any other Inſtrument, furniſhed only with Common Sights, though 10, 20, 30, nay threeſcore foot Radius; […]
1674, Robert Hooke, Animadversions on the Firſt Part of the Machina Coelestis of the […] Aſtronomer Johannes Hevelius […] , page 43
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with telescopical
tropicaltopicalsubtropicalneotropicalextratropicalmicroscopicalAfrotropicalallotropicaldystopicalmacroscopicalmisanthropicalpantropicalsemitropicalutopical
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