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iconographically

iconographically

9.9
Using pictures or symbols to show meaning
  • adverb
  • /ˌaɪkəˈnɒɡrəfɪkli/
translation icon : iconográficamente
  • In the new exhibit, each piece was designed iconographically to represent different themes of love and loss.

Examples

  • Numerous other possibilities exist for employing throne curtains and patios iconographically.

    Academic text (1993)
  • The Departure of Saint Paula, so apt a subject for Camilla, was iconographically rather rare.

    Academic text (1994)
  • And so he's finding that there's all sorts of back story involved iconographically in this.

  • The theory is interesting but somewhat conjectural and not convincingly supported iconographically.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Perhaps the cross on the Virgin's belt is liturgically rather than iconographically motivated.

    Academic text (2005)
  • When the two are compared, it is quite evident that the image of Mary responds physically, figurally, and even iconographically to Mars.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Our Italian engraving unabashedly borrows its most important figure, iconographically speaking, from the German tradition.

    Academic text (1999)
  • The Gallo-Roman Mars and the spandrel statues converge iconographically.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Even some of the scenes that more commonly occur may have been iconographically odd; the Crucifixion with angels bearing the lance and sponge, if Mallay's description is accurate, is a case in point.

    Academic text (1991)
  • The artist used colors iconographically to convey deep cultural meanings in her paintings.

Synonyms

graphically
vsiconographically
6 4.4

In a way that shows information with clear pictures or charts

focuses on images and their symbolic meaning rather than technical visual display
pictorially
vsiconographically
1 6.5

Using pictures or diagrams to explain something

focuses on images and their symbolic meaning within art and visual communication
emblematically
vsiconographically
7.2

Shows something as a sign of an idea or quality

focuses on images and their symbolic study in art rather than mere symbolism
pictographically
vsiconographically
7.7

Using simple pictures to show meaning instead of words

focuses on images and their symbolic study rather than direct pictorial writing

How Iconographic

iconographically
9.9
symbolically
24 6.0
visually
81 3.5
decoratively
1 3.4

Surface Forms

iconographically positive

Morphology

iconographically = iconographic (transparent) = icon + graphic + ally

The adverb is a regular formation from the adjective 'iconographic' using the productive adverbial suffix '-ally'.

Etymology

Iconographically comes from icon 'image' and -graphic 'to draw', the same parts you see in photograph and graphic. So, to look at something iconographically is to study or describe it through its images or symbols.