adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an æsthetic or æsthetical manner; in relation to æsthetics, or to a standard of taste.

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1839.  De Quincey, Murder (1862), IV. 5. It may also be treated æsthetically as the Germans call it—that is in relation to good taste.

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1873.  Symonds, Grk. Poets, vi. 171. The æsthetically ennobling enthusiasm for the old Greek deities.

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1882.  Stuart-Glennie, in Macm. Mag., XLV. 497. Archæologically interesting … as they might be, they were æsthetically tawdry … to the last degree.

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