a. [f. L. textūra TEXTURE + -AL.] Of or belonging to texture.
1835–6. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., I. 67/1. The textural properties of the two sets of vessels.
1854. Jones & Sieveking, Pathol. Anat. (1874), 23. The differences in textural quality, which fibrine often presents.
1886. T. Hardy, Mayor of Casterbridge, ii. Her skin had undergone a textural change.
b. Painting: see TEXTURE sb. 6.
1859. Gullick & Timbs, Paint., 229. The gem-like impasto and textural richness of the old masters.
1887. Pall Mall G., 8 Feb., 2/2. Never has the French master shown greater textural facility, power of expression, or frankness of colour.
Hence Texturally adv., in or as regards texture.
1866. Reader, 19 May, 500. The mare herself, with her beautiful foal, are all, to our eye, texturally perfect.
1872. Coues, N. Amer. Birds, 22. The second class of crests—those consisting of texturally modified feathers.
