scenicallyadv.

1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. i. 2 The World is both the Spectacle and Spectator; the Actors are the Authors themselues, each presenting his owne actions and passions in that kind..; not affectedly straining, or scenic-all-ly playing their part.

1650 A. B. Mutatus Polemo 2 He must now act a Kings part more Scenically.

1689 J. Howe Humble Requests to Conformists & Dissenters 3 The prayers were also read, but carelesly, sleepily, or scenically, flauntingly, and with manifest irreverence.

1788 World 16 July He succeeded so well as to fill the Boxes, Pit, and Galleries of the Royalty Theatre with his admirers, who laughed immoderately at the ludicrous situations scenically represented.

1818 Q. Musical Mag. & Rev. 1 406 Figaro is even better represented at Covent Garden, vocally better, scenically infinitely better, and indeed better as a drama.

1888 H. Ellis Ibsen's Pillars of Society p. vii [The Scandinavians] possess..a stage on which great literary works may be performed, and the burning questions of the modern world be scenically resolved.

1956 W. P. Boyle Central & Flexible Staging vi. 67 Large, imposing doors could be..linked scenically by hanging a large curtain between them.

1997 K. Gänzl Musical xii. 389 A physical production which included as many moving parts—computerized!—as the most scenically complex show in town.

1841 Age 18 Apr. 122/3 The ‘Lower and Turk Lakes, Killarney’; and ‘Puffin Hole, near Kilkee’, are the attractive scenes; and all are exquisitely engraved. N. P. Willis's historical portion is scarcely scenically descriptive enough.

1843 W. Henry Events Mil. Life II. xlv. 213 A fine high shore, much planting, and a grand back-ground of tall forest—all rising strikingly and scenically from the lake.

1894 Chambers's Jrnl. 2 June 339/1 Bloody Foreland, the extreme north-western corner of Ireland, is not scenically so sensational as you would, from its name, suppose it might be. The coast here is not at all bold.

1925 Motor Boating Mar. 102/2 We have learned much of the West Indies, historically, scenically.

1970 Washington Post 30 Aug. c1 Santorini, scenically the most dramatic of all the Aegean islands.

2008 G. Parsons Aesthetics & Nature iv. 55 The division [in natural scenery] between what we regard as the ‘scenic masterpieces’, such as mountains, and the plain, or even ugly, environments that Yuriko Saito calls ‘scenically challenged’.