pantoscopicadj.
/ˌpantəˈskɒpɪk/, U.S. /ˌpæn(t)oʊˈskɑpɪk/ 1. Designating bifocal spectacles or (occasionally) reading glasses with the top part of the lenses removed. Now historical and rare.
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the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [adjective] > types of spectacles
steel-rimmeda1400
steelbowed1606
young1667
near-sighted1796
trifocal1826
steel-bow1834
pantoscopic1836
window glass1885
bifocal1888
horn-rimmed1894
pebbled1928
thick-lensed1946
single-vision1962
wire-rim1968
wire-frame1977
Lennon1984
1836 Times 4 Mar. 7/6 (advt.) Elkington's patent pantoscopic spectacles.
1847 Times 13 Dec. 11/4 (advt.) Patent pantoscopic spectacles for the sight of advancing years.
1875 H. Walton Pract. Treat. Dis. Eye (ed. 3) 259 Spectacles made according to this principle have long been sold..under the name of pantoscopic.
2000 Bristol Evening Post (Nexis) 1 Feb. 6 He patented pantoscopic (wide angled bifocal) glasses for elderly people.
2. pantoscopic camera n. a panoramic camera. Now historical and rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > camera > [noun] > general types of
box camera1828
daguerreotype1839
view camera1851
pistolgraph1859
pinhole camera1861
panoramic camera1862
pantoscopic camera1865
pistolograph1866
pantoscope1879
detective camera1881
filmograph1881
photographometera1884
photochronograph1887
snap-shooter1890
stand camera1890
tele-objective camera1891
film camera1893
magazine camera1893
panoram1893
telephoto1894
mutograph1897
tele-camera1899
telephote1903
press camera1912
reflex1922
candid camera1929
minicam1935
single-lens reflex1936
plate camera1937
magic eye1938
subminiature1947
miniature1952
all-sky camera1955
microfilmer1959
stereo-camera1959
streak camera1962
gallery camera1964
SLR1964
TLR1965
spy-camera1968
pinhole1976
multi-mode1981
digicam1989
point-and-shoot1991
1864 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. 11 350/1 Mr. Johnson, of Red Lion-square, in conjunction with Mr. Harrison, obtained a patent in September, 1862, for a panoramic camera... We understand that a company, under the designation of ‘The Pantascopic Company’, has been formed to produce pictures by means of Johnson's camera.]
1865 Photogr. Jrnl. 16 Jan. 176/2 The construction of the Pantascopic Camera is based upon the fact that..the image is stationary, not withstanding the rotation of the lens.
1893 Photogr. Ann. 292 Rotate the lens and film as..in the pantascopic camera.
1976 Times 22 Jan. 16/6 Another highlight of the sale..was a Johnson pantoscopic camera of about 1862.
3. All-seeing; having a wide range of vision or coverage.
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1959 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 18 9 For, as the most favorable position in space—given vision—is, in a way, pantoscopic; so too, the most favorable moment in time—given vision—is even pantomnemonic.
1979 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 39 U17/1 (advt.) The time is ripe for a more or less pantoscopic account of modern Japanese fiction in the light of its traditions.
1990 Internat. Stud. Q. 34 304 It lacks the ubiquity, resolution, and pantoscopic power of the technical intelligence service.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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