Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bioscope \Bi"o*scope\, n. [Gr. 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).

Source : WordNet®

bioscope
     n 1: a South African movie theater
     2: a kind of early movie projector