| 释义 |
picˈtorical, a. rare.
[f. as prec. + -ical.]
Concerned with painters or painting; pictorial. Hence picˈtorically adv., in the manner of a painter, from the point of view of painting.
1596Harington Metam. Ajax (1814) 20 Since this travel we have been both poetical and I musical and pictorical. 1656[see pictural]. 1761Sterne Tr. Shandy III. v, He must have redden'd, pictorically and scientintically speaking, six whole tints and a half..above his natural colour. 1883Schaff Hist. Ch. II. xii. lxxxi. 637 He is fond of the historical present..of pictorical participles and of affectionate diminutives. |