Both Uses of
aesthetic
in
Moby Dick
- But if, in the face of all this, you still declare that whaling has no aesthetically noble associations connected with it...
Chpt 22-24 *aesthetically = with a kind of beautyunconventional spelling: Aesthetically is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetically.
- Of late years the Manilla rope has in the American fishery almost entirely superseded hemp as a material for whale-lines; for, though not so durable as hemp, it is stronger, and far more soft and elastic; and I will add (since there is an aesthetics in all things), is much more handsome and becoming to the boat, than hemp.†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(aesthetic) related to beauty or good taste -- often referring to one's appreciation of beauty or one's sense of what is beautiful
or:
beautiful or tasteful