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spectatorial, a.|spɛktəˈtɔərɪəl|
[f. prec.]
1. Pertaining or appropriate to, characteristic of, a spectator.
In earlier examples with reference to spectator 3.
1712Steele Spect. No. 336 ⁋1, I hope your Spectatorial Authority will give a seasonable Check to the Spread of the Infection. Ibid. No. 430 ⁋1 All which is submitted to your Spectatorial Vigilance. 1744Eliza Heywood Female Spectator v. (1748) I. 257 In fine, my spectatorial capacity will permit me to approve of no other entertainments which are paid for. 1889Macm. Mag. May 40 He..stood in a spectatorial attitude, watching the world through wicked humorous eyes.
2. Forming part of a spectacle.
1783Colman Prose Sev. Occas. (1787) III. 73 To introduce a groupe of Spectatorial actors speaking in one part of the Drama and singing in another.
3. Having the characteristics of one or other of the periodicals bearing the title of Spectator.
1817Whewell in Todhunter Acc. Writ. (1876) II. 21 A magazine or periodical collection of essays upon all subjects, scientific, literary, spectatorial, or any other. 1834Southey Doctor lxiii. (1848) 134 A painter might describe the facial angle,..and whether the chin was in the just mean between rueful length and spectatorial brevity. 1891Pall Mall G. 4 Mar. 2/2 Disposing of it in one of those airy generalizations which Spectatorial omniscience is wont to throw off from time to time.
Hence spectaˈtorially adv.
1930A. Huxley Brief Candles 14 People think I'm an excellent psychologist. And I suppose I am. Spectatorially. But I'm a bad experiencer. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Dec. 1536/5 Our Londoner applauds not a murder, but a representation; and he himself is spectatorially present at a representation, not at a murder. 1980D. Newsome On Edge of Paradise vi. 211 Arthur was invited to a number of spectatorially promising occasions. |