a. [See -ICAL.] = prec.
1858. Times, 1 Dec., 8/3. How brilliant, and prismatic, and kaleidoscopical are the intellects to which our destines are now confided!
1861. T. L. Peacock, Gryll Grange, xiv. 114. His imagination … is overloaded with minutiæ and kaleidoscopical colours.
Hence Kaleidoscopically adv., after the manner of a kaleidoscope, with continual changes.
1866. Sat. Rev., 7 April, 400/1. Mr. Gladstone is always in earnest…. But then he is so kaleidoscopically sincere.
1891. T. Hardy, Life’s Little Ironies (1894), 90–1. The long plate-glass mirrors … flashed the gyrating personages and hobby-horses kaleidoscopically into his eyes.
