adv. [f. TELESCOPIC, -AL: see -ICALLY.) In a telescopic manner.
1. By or as by means of a telescope; as, or as if, seen through a telescope.
1846. Worcester, Telescopically, by use of a telescope.
1867–77. G. Chambers, Astron., I. i. 7. When telescopically examined.
1879. Newcomb & Holden, Astron., 373. Telescopically … we might classify them with Mercury and Venus.
2. In the manner of the tubes of a hand-telescope; by the sliding of one part within another.
1894. Baring-Gould, Queen of L., I. vi. 67. It appeared as though the pole were collapsing telescopically.
1898. Sedgwick, Text-bk. Zool., I. viii. 299. The foot or pseudopodium [in Rotifera] may be jointed, and the joints are often telescopically retractile.
