pictoricaladj.

1596 J. Harington Anat. Metamorph. Aiax sig. L7^v Since this trauell we haue bene both Poeticall, and I Musicall and Pictorical.

1641 J. Johnson Acad. Love 38 Cupid brought me to a double leaved doore, upon which were painted many horrid and unknowne monsters, chimeras, and meere pictoricall fictions.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Pictorical, Pictorian, Pictural, of or belonging to a Picture; garnished, painted, gaily or trimly set forth. Dr. Br[owne].

1791 T. Kirshaw in Twenty Ess. Lit. & Philos. Subj. 202 Sometimes, reflected lights are necessary; at other times they are used, with a pictorical liberty, to produce the desired effect.

1845 W. M. Thackeray Picture Gossip in Early & Late Papers (1867) 243 All the regular adjuncts and property of pictorical tragedy.

1883 P. Schaff Hist. Christian Church II. xii. lxxxi. 637 He is fond of the historical present..of pictorical participles and of affectionate diminutives.

1914 G. Moore Let. 17 Aug. in J. Hone Life G. Moore (1936) viii. 320 He [sc. Yeats] has devised literary formulæ not unlike the pictorical formulæ that Walter Sickert invented.

1993 H. Gardner Creating Minds v. 157 In his search for a permanent pictorical reality, he turned his back equally on the complex of color, emotion, and sensation..[of] the impressionists and the expressionists.

1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. v. 17 He must have redden'd, pictorically and scientintically speaking, six whole tints and a half..above his natural colour.

1915 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 21 390 A rogue's gallery of modern evils, supplemented by constructive suggestions pictorically represented, would have possibilities.

1985 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 314 133 The modes in terms of symmetry..are shown pictorically in figure 3.