esthetical
Americanadjective
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They may very likely enjoy it, for they will see nothing dainty or esthetical in Fancy Free, the surprise hit of Manhattan's booming ballet season.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are conditioned by their esthetical faculty, and encouraged by the circumstances of their life to feel and express the whole gamut of emotional experience.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion by Havelock Ellis
May not the contemplative, medieval, monastic ideal be esthetical, and not religious nor even ethical?
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
He is entertained by Mrs. Raffarty, that esthetical lady who is determined to have a little 'taste' of everything at Tusculum.
From The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth
The corporeal nature of man--his complexion, his physiognomy, his stature; the intellectual nature of man--his religious, ethical, and esthetical ideas are all modified by his surroundings.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
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