zooscopic, adj.

zooscopic
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Revised 2017

# zooscopicadjective

## Factsheet

### What does the adjective zooscopic mean?

There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective zooscopic. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

### How common is the adjective zooscopic?

Fewer than 0.01occurrences per million words in modern written English

1810 | 0.0003
1820 | 0.0002
1830 | 0.0002
1840 | 0.0002
1850 | 0.0001
1860 | 0.0002
1870 | 0.0003
1880 | 0.0004
1890 | 0.0005
1900 | 0.0005
1910 | 0.0005
1920 | 0.0005
1930 | 0.0005
1940 | 0.0003
1950 | 0.0001
1960 | 0.0001
1970 | 0.0001
1980 | 0.00003
1990 | 0.00003
2000 | 0.00004
2010 | 0.00004

### How is the adjective zooscopic pronounced?

#### British English

/ˌzuːə(ʊ)ˈskɒpɪk/
zoo-oh-SKOP-ik
/ˌzəʊə(ʊ)ˈskɒpɪk/
zoh-oh-SKOP-ik

#### U.S. English

/ˌzoʊəˈskɑpɪk/
zoh-uh-SKAH-pick
/ˌzuəˈskɑpɪk/
zoo-uh-SKAH-pick

### Where does the adjective zooscopic come from?

Earliest known use

1810s

The earliest known use of the adjective zooscopic is in the 1810s.

OED's earliest evidence for zooscopic is from 1817, in the writing of Jeremy Bentham, philosopher, jurist, and reformer.

### Nearby entries

1. zooplankter, n. 1935–
2. zooplanktivore, n. 1972–
3. zooplanktivorous, adj. 1971–
4. zooplankton, n. 1897–
5. zooplanktonic, adj. 1912–
6. zooplastic, adj. a1855–
7. zoopraxinoscope, n. 1889–
8. zoopraxiscope, n. 1881–
9. zoopraxography, n. 1891–
10. zoopsychology, n. 1847–
11. zooscopic, adj.1817–
12. zooscopy, n. 1891–
13. zoosematic, adj. 1898–1909
14. zoosemiotics, n. 1963–
15. zoosophy, n. 1662–1848
16. zoosperm, n. 1824–
17. zoospermatic, adj. 1845–79
18. zoosporangiophore, n. 1889–
19. zoosporangium, n. 1862–
20. zoospore, n. 1842–
21. zoosporic, adj. 1854–

## Meaning & use

1. 1817–
   † a. Of or relating to the scientific study of animals; zoological (obsolete rare); b. Psychiatry designating a hallucination in which intimidating animals are visualized; cf. zooscopy n.
   1. 1817

      > Zooscopic or Zoologic Physiurgics.

      J. Bentham, Chrestomathia Part II 189
   2. 1890

      > This condition of zoöscopic hallucination is one of the commonest among the phenomena of alcohol poisoning.

      Science vol. 15 43
   3. 1991

      > The visual hallucinations..are typically, as in delirium tremens, zooscopic in type with animals being visualized, often insects or rodents or snakes.

      N. S. Miller, Pharmacol. Alcohol vii. 80
   animals psychiatry
   1. theriological 1653
      = theriologic, adj.
   2. zoological 1686–
      Of or relating to zoology; belonging or devoted to the scientific study of animals.
   3. theriologic 1697–
      Of or pertaining to the scientific study of beasts; zoological.
   4. zoologic 1766–
      = zoological, adj. (in various senses).
   5. zooscopic 1817–
      †a. Of or relating to the scientific study of animals; zoological (obsolete rare); b. Psychiatry designating a hallucination in which intimidating…
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   1. zooscopic 1817–
      †a. Of or relating to the scientific study of animals; zoological (obsolete rare); b. Psychiatry designating a hallucination in which intimidating…
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## Pronunciation

### British English

/ˌzuːə(ʊ)ˈskɒpɪk/
zoo-oh-SKOP-ik
/ˌzəʊə(ʊ)ˈskɒpɪk/
zoh-oh-SKOP-ik

### U.S. English

/ˌzoʊəˈskɑpɪk/
zoh-uh-SKAH-pick
/ˌzuəˈskɑpɪk/
zoo-uh-SKAH-pick

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##### Consonants

- ppea
- ttea
- kkey
- bbuy
- ddye
- ɡguy
- tʃchore
- dʒjay
- ffore
- θthaw
- ssore
- ʃshore
- vvee
- ðthee
- zzee
- ʒbeige
- xloch
- hhay
- llay
- ɬrhingyll
- rray
- wway
- jyore
- mmay
- nnay
- ŋsing

Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence /ˈpɛtl/ but /ˈpɛtl̩i/.

##### Vowels

- iːfleece
- ihappy
- ɪkit
- ɛdress
- atrap, bath
- ɑːstart, palm, bath
- ɒlot
- ɔːthought, force
- ʌstrut
- ʊfoot
- uːgoose
- əletter
- əːnurse
- ɪənear
- ɛːsquare
- ʊəcure
- eɪface
- ʌɪpride
- aʊmouth
- əʊgoat
- ɔɪvoice
- ãgratin
- ɒ̃salon
- ᵻ(/ɪ/-/ə/)
- ᵿ(/ʊ/-/ə/)

##### Other symbols

- The symbol ˈ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with primary stress.
- The symbol ˌ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with secondary stress.
- Round brackets ( ) in a transcription indicate that the symbol within the brackets is optional.

View the pronunciation model here.

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##### Consonants

- ppea
- ttea
- kkey
- bbuy
- ddye*
- ɡguy
- tʃchore
- dʒjay
- ffore
- θthaw
- ssore
- ʃshore
- vvee
- ðthee
- zzee
- ʒbeige
- xloch
- hhay
- llay
- rray
- wway
- jyore
- mmay
- nnay
- ŋsing

* /d/ also represents a 'tapped' /t/ as in

Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence /ˈpɛd(ə)l/ but /ˈpɛdl̩i/.

##### Vowels

- ifleece, happy
- ɪkit
- ɛdress
- ætrap, bath
- ɑlot, palm, cloth, thought
- ɑrstart
- ɔcloth, thought
- ɔrnorth, force
- ʊfoot
- ugoose
- əstrut, comma
- ərnurse, letter
- ɪ(ə)rnear
- ɛ(ə)rsquare
- ʊ(ə)rcure
- eɪface
- aɪpride
- aʊmouth
- oʊgoat
- ɔɪvoice
- ɑ̃gratin
- æ̃salon
- ᵻ(/ɪ/-/ə/)
- ᵿ(/ʊ/-/ə/)

##### Other symbols

- The symbol ˈ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with primary stress.
- The symbol ˌ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with secondary stress.
- Round brackets ( ) in a transcription indicate that the symbol within the brackets is optional.

View the pronunciation model here.

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Simple text respell breaks words into syllables, separated by a hyphen. The syllable which carries the primary stress is written in capital letters. This key covers both British and U.S. English Simple Text Respell.

##### Consonants

b, d, f, h, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, v, w and z have their standard English values

- gguy
- jjay
- yyore
- chchore
- khloch
- shshore
- ththaw
- dhthee
- zhbeige

##### Vowels

- atrap
- ahpalm
- airsquare
- arstart
- arrcarry (British only)
- awthought
- ayface
- a(ng)gratin
- edress
- eefleece
- eerdeer
- errmerry
- ikit
- ighpride
- irrmirror
- olot (British only)
- ohgoat
- oogoose
- oorcure
- orforce
- orrsorry (British only)
- owmouth
- oyvoice
- o(ng)salon
- ustrut
- uhletter
- urnurse
- urrhurry
- uufoot

## Frequency

zooscopic typically occurs fewer than 0.01 times per million words in modern written English.

zooscopic is in frequency band 1, which contains words occurring fewer than 0.001 times per million words in modern written English. More about OED's frequency bands

Frequency data is computed programmatically, and should be regarded as an estimate.

### Frequency of zooscopic, adj., 1810–2010

* Occurrences per million words in written English

Historical frequency series are derived from Google Books Ngrams (version 2), a data set based on the Google Books corpus of several million books printed in English between 1500 and 2010.

The overall frequency for a given word is calculated by summing frequencies for the main form of the word, any plural or inflected forms, and any major spelling variations.

For sets of homographs (distinct entries that share the same word-form, e.g. mole, n.¹, mole, n.², mole, n.³, etc.), we have estimated the frequency of each homograph entry as a fraction of the total Ngrams frequency for the word-form. This may result in inaccuracies.

Smoothing has been applied to series for lower-frequency words, using a moving-average algorithm. This reduces short-term fluctuations, which may be produced by variability in the content of the Google Books corpus.

Decade | Frequency per million words
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1810 | 0.0003
1820 | 0.0002
1830 | 0.0002
1840 | 0.0002
1850 | 0.0001
1860 | 0.0002
1870 | 0.0003
1880 | 0.0004
1890 | 0.0005
1900 | 0.0005
1910 | 0.0005
1920 | 0.0005
1930 | 0.0005
1940 | 0.0003
1950 | 0.0001
1960 | 0.0001
1970 | 0.0001
1980 | 0.00003
1990 | 0.00003
2000 | 0.00004
2010 | 0.00004

Originally published as part of the entry for zoo-, comb. form

zoo-, comb. form was revised in June 2017.