adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an æsthetic or æsthetical manner; in relation to æsthetics, or to a standard of taste.
1839. De Quincey, Murder (1862), IV. 5. It may also be treated æsthetically as the Germans call itthat is in relation to good taste.
1873. Symonds, Grk. Poets, vi. 171. The æsthetically ennobling enthusiasm for the old Greek deities.
1882. Stuart-Glennie, in Macm. Mag., XLV. 497. Archæologically interesting as they might be, they were æsthetically tawdry to the last degree.