Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Bioscope

Bioscope , noun

[Greek bi`os life + -scope.]

1.
A view of life; that which gives such a view.
Bagman's Bioscope: Various Views of Men and Manners. [Book Title.] — W. Bayley (1824)
2.
An animated picture machine for screen projection; a cinematograph (which see); an archaic term replaced by movie projector. [archaic]
3.
a South African movie theater.