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stylistic, a. and n.|staɪˈlɪstɪk|
Also stilistic.
[f. style n. + -ist + -ic; after G. stilistisch adj., stilistik n.]
A. adj. Pertaining to literary style.
1860G. P. Marsh Lect. Engl. Lang. 82 Njála,.. which, as an example of pure stylistic excellence, may fairly be pronounced altogether unsurpassed. 1864Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xvi. ix. IV. 380 Mere grammatical stylistic skin-deep work. 1877E. W. Gosse North. Studies, 4 Danish Poets (1890) 227 Paul Heyse..with his lyrical drama of Amor and Psyche, a work displaying stilistic gift of the first order. 1883R. L. Stevenson in Mag. of Art Nov. 26/2 The engendering idea of some works is stylistic; a technical preoccupation stands them instead of some robuster principle of life. 1888Jewish Q. Rev. I. 77 Historical, linguistic, and stylistic peculiarities converge, he thinks, to prove this. 1911H. O. Taylor Mediaeval Mind vi. xxxi. II. 152 The stylistic genius of Augustine and Jerome.
B. n. The science of literary style; the study of stylistic features. Also (more commonly) stylistics [see -ics].
[1846Worcester, Stylistic, the art of forming a good style in writing; a treatise on style.] 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Rel. Knowl. II. 965 Giving proper place to New Testament stylistics and rhetoric. 1906Month Feb. 215 A question of ‘Stylistic,’ to adopt a convenient, though to English ears an uncouth, German expression.
So styˈlistical a. = stylistic a. styˈlistically adv., with regard to literary or artistic style; also, in a stylized or conventional manner.
1889A. J. Evans in Archæol. Rev. II. 323 An ivory object..so stylistically carved as to remind us of the treatment of some late Celtic bronze articles. 1889Class. Rev. III. 87/2 The reproductions look pretty, but are far from being stylistically satisfactory. 1897Ibid. XI. 284/1 Great numbers of stylistical peculiarities are required for correct inferences. 1911H. O. Taylor Mediaeval Mind ii. xiv. I. 346 Stylistically, these great church mosaics belonged to antique art. 1915Nation (N.Y.) 10 June 650/1 Several glazed pieces, notably the Visitation, [etc.] seem stylistically to belong before 1440. |