a. rare. [f. Gr. οὐρανοσκόπ-ος observing the heavens.] a. Pertaining to the study of the heavens. b. Directed towards the heavens.
1816. Bentham, Chrestom., Wks. 1843, VIII. 86. Uranoscopic Physiurgics has for its single-worded synonym the adequately expressive appelative Astronomy.
1854. Fraser’s Mag., L. 203. Till his uranoscopic eyes warn him that the … fishes … are within gulp of his open sepulchre of a throat.
