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æsthetical, a.
(ɛsˈθɛtɪkal, iː-, see prec.)
[f. æsthetic + -al1.]
Of or relating to æsthetics; relating to the philosophy or theory of beauty.
Often interchanged in use with æsthetic, but properly distinct; thus my æsthetical notions are the notions I have on the subject of æsthetics; my æsthetic faculties are those which exercise æsthetics.
1798Willich Elem. Crit. Philos. 104 Those judgments..are called aesthetical, which relate to the Beautiful and the Sublime. 1832[see æsthetic ¶ ]. 1837Lockhart Scott (1839) III. 77 His own æsthetical notions are indicated rather than expressed. 1870Disraeli Lothair xxxv. 182 Lady Beatrice was there, herself an artist, and full of æsthetical enthusiasm. 1876C. M. Davies Unorth. Lond. 204 The æsthetical element in religious matters—that element which addresses the feeling of devotion through the channels of the senses. |