a. [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 Thermoscopical a., in same sense; whence Thermoscopically adv.
1670. Phil. Trans., V. p. iv. The Thermoscopical Measures of Warmth and Frigidiiy. Ibid. (1730), XXXVI. 254. From Thermoscopical Observations.
1895. Funk’s Stand. Dict., Thermoscopically.
