Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or having the nature of a kinetoscope.

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Examples

  • His imagination flung before him kinetoscopic flashes of what his father's life had been and Horace Gower's.

    Poor Man's Rock Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

  • When the playing began a beautiful panorama unfolded before him -- the regular notes in the music enhancing the beauty, and changes in the scenes, which he described as a most wonderful kinetoscopic display.

    The Silent Bullet 1908

  • It is kinetoscopic, first of all, in its lifelikeness and the convincing reality of the actions it pictures.

    An Anarchist Woman Hutchins Hapgood 1906

  • The action raced like an overtimed kinetoscopic film.

    A Man to His Mate Stockton [Illustrator] Mulford 1906

  • His formulas are like stereoscopic or kinetoscopic photographs seen outside the instrument; they lack the depth, the motion, the vitality.

    The Varieties of Religious Experience 1902

  • As in stereoscopic or kinetoscopic pictures seen outside the instrument, the third dimension, the movement, the vital element, are not there.

    The Varieties of Religious Experience 1902

  • A week after the announcement the two sat on the same bench in the downtown park, while the fluttering leaves of the trees made a dim kinetoscopic picture of them in the moonlight.

    The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million O. Henry 1886

  • Or, again, where the night life quivers in the electric glare like a kinetoscopic picture, and the millinery of the world, and its jewels, and the ones whom they adorn, and the men who make all three possible are met for good cheer and the spectacular effect.

    Strictly business: more stories of the four million O. Henry 1886

  • I will not pretend that I saw it in its entirety, and I have no hope of presenting anything like a kinetoscopic impression of it.

    Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship William Dean Howells 1878

  • As in stereoscopic or kinetoscopic pictures seen outside the instrument, the third dimension, the movement, the vital element, are not there.

    Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature William James 1876

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