Antedating of "Cinematic"

[Erik Hoover]

It is hard to pin down the sense in Howells, as cinematic was an
alternate spelling of kinematic from what I see in online version of
the 1913 Webster's.

source:http://machaut.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/WEBSTER.sh?WORD=cinematic

Erik

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> I'm not sure this is the same word...
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> cinematic (OED 1927)
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> 1913 William Dean Howells _Familiar Spanish Travels_ 55  That spindling
> sparseness, worse than utter baldness, of the wheat stubble now
> disappeared with cinematic suddenness.
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