programmaticaladj.

1890 G. B. Shaw in World 19 Nov. 23/1 The rhetoric of the programmatical analyst cannot much longer hypnotise people into imagining that Mendelssohn succeeded in making a great symphony.

1925 Times 17 Apr. 9/4 It was in effect a programmatical outline of the new commercial policy.

1939 Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geographers 29 267 Richthofen presented..what came to be regarded as the programmatical statement of modern German geography.

1972 Amer. Hist. Rev. 77 1426 An exposition of the programmatical monachization of the entire Church.

1994 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 52 93/2 The programmatical importance of emphasizing..sound as such as the object of audience attention.

1907 F. Niecks Programme Mus. iii. iii. 160 Löwe is at his best, musically and programmatically, in the Gipsy Sonata.

1938 Philos. Rev. 47 97 Although he is programmatically skeptical of the comparative and social evolutionary methods, he makes some use of them.

1971 S. Herrick Astrodynamics I. vii. 179 Programmatically or computationally, especially with automatic, automaton machinery, there is a great difference.

2004 Politics Oct. 80/1 Even from the once programmatically experimental jazz world, a new group of singer-songwriters has emerged who..are sacrificing themselves to cover versions.