illustrationaladj.
/ˌɪləˈstreɪʃn̩(ə)l/, U.S. /ˌɪləˈstreɪʃ(ə)nəl/ Of or pertaining to illustration; illustrative. Also as n.
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illustrational1885
1885 Bowen in Law Times Rep. 53 610/2 Putting, in an emphatic and illustrational way..that the advowson is a right of presentation that concerns and affects lands.
1926 R. Fry Transformations 147 Rodin's concern is with the expression of character and situation, it is essentially dramatic and illustrational.
1955 P. Heron Changing Forms Art iii. xi. 168 I believe Sutherland's phantasy is essentially illustrational, poetic, non-plastic.
1959 Listener 6 Aug. 206/1 Everything in fiction as in life had to satisfy his [H. James's] ‘appetite for the illustrational’.
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adj.1885