sci optics (sioptiks)

[Pl. of scioptic (see -ics).] The art of exhibiting luminous images, especially those of external objects, in a dark ened room, by means of lenses, etc. scioptric (sī-op'trik), a. Same as scioptic. Compare catoptric. Sciot, Sciote (sī'ot, -ōt), n. and a. [ II. a. Of or belonging to Scio, ancient Chios, an island of the Ægean Sea, or its inhabitants. sciotheism (sĩ'ō-the-izm), n . [Formed by Huxley σκιά , a shade, shadow, + E. theism .] The deification of ghosts or the shades of departed ancestors; ancestral worship. Sciotheism, under the form of the deification ancestral ghosts, in its most pronounced form, is therefore the chief element in the theology of a great moiety, po ibly of more than half, of the human race. Huxley, Nineteenth Century, XIX. 494. sciotheric (si-ō-ther'ik), a. Same as sciatheric. Scio turpentine. Same as Chian turpentine. See Chian . scire facias (sī'rē fā'shi-as). [So called from these words in the writ: L. scire, know (see scient); facias, 2d pers. sing. pres. subj. of fa cere, make, cause. In law, a writ to enforce the execution of judgments, patents, or matters of record, or to vacate, quash, or annul them. It is often abbreviated to sci. fa.