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lychnoscope Arch.|ˈlɪknəskəʊp|
[f. Gr. λύχνο-ς lamp + -σκόπος -scope.]
A name given to the low side window on the supposition that its purpose was to allow lepers to see the altar lights.
1843Ecclesiologist II. 71 A paper on the windows called ‘Lychnoscopes’, in the fourth edition of the [Cambridge Camden] Society's ‘Hints on the Practical Study of Ecclesiastical Antiquities’. 1846― V. 165 Lychnoscopes are nothing else than the symbolical representation of the Wound in the Saviour's Side. 1848B. Webb Continental Ecclesiol. 57 The dwarf-wall is pierced by a broad fenestrella with a trefoliated head opening through into the aisle. This in England would be called a ‘lychnoscope’. 1866Parker Gloss. Terms Goth. Archit.
Hence lychnoˈscopic a.
1849Ecclesiologist IX. 314 Behind it is a small chamber with a kind of ‘lychnoscopic’ window. 1852Ibid. XIII. 216. |