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Same as Æsthete, Æsthetic, Æsthetical, Æsthetics, etc.

Giving thanks; expressing thankfulness; rejoicing. [Obs.] The eucharistical part of our daily devotions. Ray.

Expecting a wish; supplicatory. [R.] Sacrifices . . . distinguished into expiatory, euctical, and eucharistical. Bp. Law.

Eudemonistic.

Of or pertaining to eulogy; characterized by eulogy; bestowing praise; panegyrical; commendatory; laudatory; as, eulogistic speech or discourse. -- Eu"lo*gis"tic*al*ly, adv.

Pertaining to euphemism; containing a euphemism; softened in expression. -- Eu`phe*mis"tic*al*ly, adv.

Apt to fly away. [Obs. or R.] Blount.

Pertaining to exegesis; tending to unfold or illustrate; explanatory; expository. Walker. Ex`e*get"ic*al*ly, adv.

Foreign; not native; exotic. [R.] -- Ex*ot"ic*al*ness, n.

Pertaining to Familists. Baxter.

Characteristic of, or relating to, fanaticism; fanatic. - Fa*nat"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Fa*nat"ic*al*ness, n.

Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.

Fantastically. [Obs.]

In a fantastic manner. the letter A, in scarlet, fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom. Hawthorne.

Frenetic; frantic; frenzied. -- Frenet"ic*al*ly, adv.

nesis of anything, or its natural mode of production or development. This historical, genetical method of viewing prior systems of philosophy. Hare.

In a genetical manner.

Of or pertaining to gebdesy; obtained or determined by the operations of geodesy; engaged in geodesy; geodesic; as, geodetic surveying; geodetic observers. Geodetic line or curve, the shortest line that can be drawn between two points on the elipsoidal surface of the earth; a curve drawn on any given surface so that th…

In a geodetic manner; according to geodesy.

Of or pertaining to geognosy, or to a knowledge of the structure of the earth; geological. [R.]