a. (UN-1 7.)
1860. I. Taylor, Spir. Heb. Poetry (1873), 80. Giving to the aerial aspect of Palestine that clear, sharp, and unpictorial visibility which is now its characteristic.
1884. 19th Cent., May, 813. The idea was of the most unpictorial kind.
Hence Unpictorially adv.
a. 1864. Hawthorne, Amer. Note-Bks. (1879), II. 168. He dresses very unpictorially.
1887. Hissey, Holiday on Road, 308. Outlined unpictorially sharp against the sky.