a. [f. prec. + -IC.] Of or belonging to the kaleidoscope; exhibiting brightly colored or continually varying figures like those seen in the kaleidoscope.
a. With reference to (changing) colors.
1846. in Worcester.
1853. Forbes & Hanley, Hist. Brit. Mollusca, I. 9. Few bodies … exhibit such exquisite and kaleidoscopic figures as these … displayed in the combinations of the compound Ascidians.
1873. G. C. Davies, Mount. & Mere, viii. 56. Kaleidoscopic effects of sunshine and shade.
b. fig.
1855. H. Spencer, Princ. Psychol. (1872), I. II. ii. 182. A perpetual kaleidoscopic change of feelings.
1858. O. W. Holmes, Aut. Breakf.-t. (1865), 153. An array of pleasant kaleidoscopic phrases.
1884. Pub. Opinion, 12 Sept., 318/2. One brief incident of a kaleidoscopic career.
