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scenical, a.|ˈsiːnɪkəl, ˈsɛnɪkəl|
Also 5 scenicalle, 6–7 scenicall, 7 scænical(l, scenecal.
[f. L. scēnic-us scenic + -al1.]
1. Of or belonging to the stage; = scenic a. 1.
scenical games, scenical plays, † scenical disports = L. ludi scenici (see scenic a. 1).
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) IV. 101 This..institucion off disportes scenicalle [L. Ista institutio ludorum scenicorum]. 1579J. Northbrooke Dicing (1843) 97 Your bishops.. hath forbidden and prohibited those kynde of scenicall and enterlude playes. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. ii. vi. iv. (1624) 251 Vse honest and chast sports, scenicall shewes, playes. 1623Middleton & Rowley Sp. Gipsy iii. i. 57 The scenical school Has been my tutor long in Italy. 1749Fielding Tom Jones vii. i, Those scenical representations, which Thespis is first reported to have invented. 1823De Quincey Lett. on Educ. iv. Wks. 1860 XIV. 75 Each steps forward as a scenical person, to play a distinct part or character. 1890Spectator 2 Aug., If scenical representation affects us more powerfully than actual suffering, must not the influence of the theatre be, on the whole, harmful to character?
b. with special reference to stage-scenery.
1791–1823D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (1858) III. 9 These scenical effects existed in great perfection in the Masques. 1884Symonds Shaks. Predec. viii. (1900) 233 The absence of scenical appeals to the sense of sight.
2. fig.
a. (Chiefly in bad sense.) Resembling, or likened to, stage-representation and stage-illusion; theatrical in style.
a1563Becon Compar. Lord's Supper & Mass Wks. III. 97 b, The Massemonger handlyng hys scenicall and stage-lyke Supper, calleth vpon the dead very busyly. 1622Peacham Compl. Gent. vi. (1634) 42 That same ampullous and scenicall pompe, with empty furniture of phrase, where-with the Stage, and our petty Poeticke Pamphlets sound so big. 1833Coleridge Table T. 15 Aug., In Gibbon..nothing is real, vivid, true: all is scenical, and, as it were, exhibited by candlelight. 1845J. Martineau Ess. (1890) I. 235 If the universe and God set the example of being scenical, what shall hinder religion from becoming histrionic?
†b. Fictitious, pretended; illusory, imaginary; not real or genuine. Obs.
(Cf. Florus ii. xiv. §4 Invictusque a veris regibus, ab illo imaginario et scenico rege superatur.)
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God vi. vii. 245 Therefore this fabulous, scænicall, filthy and ridiculous diuinity [orig. theologia fabulosa, theatrica, scenica] hath al reference vnto the ciuill. 1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. ii. (near end), These scenical and accidental differences between us, cannot make me forget that common and untoucht part of us both. 1660Fuller Mixt Contempl. ii. xli. 60 King Hen. the seventh was much troubled (as he was wont to say) with Idols, Scenecal Royaletts, poor petty, pittifull Persons, who pretended themselves Princes. 1709Steele Tatler No. 167 ⁋4, I..who look upon the Distinctions amongst Men to be meerly Scenical.
c. Resembling a stage-scene.
a1706Evelyn True Relig. (1850) I. vii. §2. 363 Many things and actions they speak of as having done, which they did no otherwise than in prophetic vision and scenical imagery. 1741Warburton Div. Legat. II. 485 The scenical image of Job and his friends sitting together on the ground seven days and seven nights without a word speaking. 1832De Quincey Charlemagne Wks. V. 354 The second form [of History] is that which may be styled the Scenical. |