[f. Gr. κάλλος beauty + αἰσθητικός; see ÆSTHETIC.] Name proposed by Whewell for æsthetics (see ÆSTHETIC B 2). Hence Callæsthetical a.
1847. Whewell, Philos. Induct. Sci., II. 569. Since … æsthetics would naturally denote the doctrine of perception in general … and since the essential point in the philosophy now spoken of [the theory of the Fine Arts] is that it attends to beauty … I should propose the term Callæsthetics, or rather Callæsthetic. Ibid., I. Pref. (ed. 2), 7. The progress of political, and moral and callesthetical truth.
