pictoriallyadv.
/pɪkˈtɔːrɪəli/, U.S. /pɪkˈtɔriəli/ 1. By means of a picture or pictures, by drawing or painting; graphically.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [adverb] > by means of picture
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1835 Southern Literary Messenger Dec. 43/2 Pictorially, or graphically, or as a German would say plastically.
1870 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 2) ii. 32 It is indeed but a step to record pictorially some particular hunt.
1966 N. Frye Speculation & Concern in T. B. Stroup Humanites & Understanding of Reality 41 Besides having paintings we have pictures of things: that is, there are things outside painting that we understand pictorially.
1991 What Personal Computer Dec. 89/3 Skylight includes another novel feature—a scheduler which pictorially displays time and date information from a particular database.
2. In the manner of a picture; as a picture, or as the subject of a picture.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [adverb] > in manner of picture
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1842 C. Dickens Let. 30 Nov. (1974) III. 387 Shall we go to Dulwich, and stroll and dine pictorially?
1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. v. 57 That partial light which..is the first requisite towards seeing objects pictorially.
1883 T. Hardy in Longman's Mag. July 259 Like the men, the women are, pictorially, less interesting than they used to be.
1907 J. Conrad Secret Agent xi. 370 She remembered now what she had heard, and she remembered it pictorially.
1999 P. Curtis Sculpture 1900–1945 vi. 203 The stage allowed planes to exist both volumetrically and pictorially.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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