callaestheticcallestheticn.adj.

1847 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. (rev. ed.) II. 569 Since..æsthetics would naturally denote the doctrine of perception in general..and since the essential point in the philosophy now spoken of [sc. the theory of the Fine Arts] is that it attends to beauty..I should propose the term Callæsthetics, or rather Callæsthetic.

1868 Judy 4 Nov. 21 Gifted by nature and refined by art, an enforced seclusion..produced an appreciable result in maturing those diplomatic and callaesthetic accomplishments by which she has already become universally known.

1900 B. Capes From Door to Door 129 He was for ever booking impressions—as other men bank their acquired gold—that he might secure himself a retirement by and by of callæsthetic affluence.

1923 G. Nathan World in Falseface ii. 110 Even a stock broker, leaving a Ziegfeld show, cannot remain wholly insensible to its callaesthetic pull.

2005 B. Hughes Helen of Troy (2006) v. 117 In the 4th century BC, callaesthetic competitions are described in the city of Elis, where the event was called the krisis kallous, ‘the battle’ or ‘the judgement’ of ‘beauty’.