单词 | peristrephic |
释义 | peristrephicadj. Now rare (historical in later use). Panoramic, unfolding.Now only in peristrephic panorama n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adjective] > revolving or rotating rolling?1518 turning1558 gyreful1566 gyring1590 revoluble1598 ambient?1614 vertiginous1680 revolving1681 rotating1757 veering1798 gyratory1815 peristrephic1816 peristrephical1827 gyral1828 gyrating1837 volutory1839 volvent1898 1816 (title) Battles of Ligny and Waterloo. Description of Messrs. Marshall's grand historical peristrephic painting of the ever-memorable battles of Ligny and Waterloo. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. iv. 27 A peristrephic view, so to speak, of the entire operations of the farm is thus obtained. 1851 J. Cairns Let. in A. R. MacEwan Life & Lett. John Cairns (1895) 351 Opening up a peristrephic picture of the Christian world. 1870 First Proofs Universal Catal. Bks. Art (Comm. Council on Educ., U.K.) II. 1196/2 Description of the grand historical peristrephic Spectacle, now exhibiting..of the..Battles of Ligny and Waterloo, etc. (Painted by Messrs. Marshall.) Compounds peristrephic panorama n. a machine which gradually unfolds a panoramic image or series of images before an audience, so as to illustrate a narrative. ΚΠ 1820 in M. Twyman Printing 1770–1970 (1998) 137 Messrs Marshall, the Inventors of the Peristrephic Panoramas, have the honour..to announce..their New and most extensive Peristrephic Panorama of the Grand Coronation. 1829 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xli, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 390 There's something gane wrang wi' the machinery o' the peristrephic panorama. 1873 J. D. Lang Poems 142 'Tis just a Peristrephic Panorama Of a sea voyage and a colonial life. 1935 Frederick (Maryland) Post 23 Feb. 4/2 There is an exhibition of Sinclair's Peristrephic Panorama of events in the life of Napoleon. 1988 K. J. Avery & P. L. Fondera John Vanderlyn's Panoramic View Versailles 11/2 A second and even more popular form was the peristrephic, or moving, panorama, consisting of painted scenery that passed before the viewer, producing the impression that he was traveling in a boat or on a train. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1816 |
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