a. [f. ÆSTHETIC + -AL.] Of or relating to æsthetics; relating to the philosophy or theory of beauty.
Often interchanged in use with æsthetic, but properly distinct; thus my æsthetical notions are the notions I have on the subject of æsthetics; my æsthetic faculties are those which exercise æsthetics.
1832. (See under ÆSTHETIC ¶.)
1837. Lockhart, Scott (1839), III. 77. His own æsthetical notions are indicated rather than expressed.
1870. Disraeli, Lothair, xxxv. 182. Lady Beatrice was there, herself an artist, and full of æsthetical enthusiasm.
1876. M. Davies, Unorth. Lond., 204. The æsthetical element in religious matters—that element which addresses the feeling of devotion through the channels of the senses.
