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ceraunoscope|sɪˈrɔːnəskəʊp| [ad. Gr. κεραυνοσκοπεῖον a machine for producing stage-thunder.] An apparatus used by the ancients in their mysteries to imitate thunder and lightning.
1827Moore Epicurean (1839) 220 note, Imitations of the noise of earthquake and thunder..by means of the Ceraunoscope, and other such contrivances. |