The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pictorial \Pic*to"ri*al\, a. [L. pictorius, fr. pictor a
painter, fr. pingere to paint. See Paint.]
Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures;
forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a
picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.
``Pictorial rhetoric.''
--Ruskin. -- Pic*to"ri*al*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
adv. In a pictorial manner.
WordNet
adv. in a pictorial manner; "depth is established pictorially"
Usage examples of "pictorially".
I cannot describe it better than by saying that it is, pictorially, the first of the modern Christs.
Imagine a dictionary in which not only actual objects are pictorially represented, but also abstract terms.
II Considerably was the world Of spinsterdom and clergy racked While he his hinted horrors hurled, And she pictorially attacked.
What he wasn't saying was vividly and pictorially flashing across his mind, elaborating with every shade of the emotional spectrum a dry recital of fact.
The 120-degree scan of curved wall available to each of them flashed with data in numerous modes - pictorially in the spying screens, as probability function in mathematical read-outs, as depth-module decision analogues, as superiorinferior unit apportionments pictured in free-flowing pyramids, as visual reports reduced to cubed grids of binaries according to relative values, as motivational curves weighted for actionreaction and presented in flowing green lines.
The 120-degree scan of curved wall available to each of them flashed with data in numerous modes -- pictorially in the spying screens, as probability function in mathematical read-outs, as depth-module decision analogues, as superior/inferior unit apportionments pictured in free-flowing pyramids, as visual reports reduced to cubed grids of binaries according to relative values, as motivational curves weighted for action/reaction and presented in flowing green lines .