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callæsˈthetic, -ics
[f. Gr. κάλλος beauty + αἰσθητικός; see æsthetic.]
Name proposed by Whewell for æsthetics (see æsthetic B 2). Hence callæsˈthetical a.
1847Whewell 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. |