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SYCOPHANT n. 5 definitions
An informer; a talebearer. [Obs.] "Accusing sycophants, of all men, did best sort to his nature." Sir P. Sidney.
SYCOPHANTCY n.
Sycophancy. [Obs.]
SYCOPHANTIC; SYCOPHANTICAL a.
Of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor by mean adulation; parasitic. To be cheated and ruined by a sycophantical parasite. South. Sycophantic servants to the King of Spain. De Quincey.
SYCOPHANTISH a.
Like a sycophant; obsequiously flattering. -- Syc"o*phant`ish*ly, adv. Sycophantish satirists that forever humor the prevailing folly. De Quincey.
SYCOPHANTISM n.
Sycophancy.
SYCOPHANTIZE v.
To play the sycophant.
SYCOPHANTRY n.
Sycophancy. [Obs.]
SYNCOPAL a.
Of or pertaining to syncope; resembling syncope.
SYNCOPATE v. 2 definitions
a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester."
SYNCOPATION n. 2 definitions
The act of syncopating; the contraction of a word by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; syncope.
SYNCOPE n. 4 definitions
Same as Syncopation.
SYNCOPIST n.
One who syncopates. Addison.
SYNCOPIZE v.
To syncopate.
TACHISTOSCOPE n.
An apparatus for exposing briefly to view a screen bearing letters or figures. It is used in studying the range of attention, or the power of distinguishing separate objects in a single impression.
TACHYSCOPE n.
An early form of antimated-picture machine, devised in 1889 by Otto Anschütz of Berlin, in which the chronophotographs were mounted upon the periphery of a rotating wheel.
TEINOSCOPE n.
of objects seen through the prisms are increased or diminished; -- called also prism telescope. Sir D. Brewster.
TELEGRAPHOSCOPE n.
An instrument for telegraphically transmitting a picture and reproducing its image as a positive or negative. The transmitter includes a camera obscura and a row of minute selenium cells. The receiver includes an oscillograph, ralay, equilibrator, and an induction coil the sparks from which perforate a paper with tiny…
TELELECTROSCOPE n.
Any apparatus for making distant objects visible by the aid of electric transmission.
TELENGISCOPE n.
An instrument of such focal length that it may be used as an observing telescope for objects close at hand or as a long-focused microscope.
TELEPOLARISCOPE n.
A polariscope arranged to be attached to a telescope. Lockyer.
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