iconographically
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- adverb
- /ˌaɪkəˈnɒɡrəfɪkli/
- In the new exhibit, each piece was designed iconographically to represent different themes of love and loss.
Examples
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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.
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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
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In a way that shows information with clear pictures or charts
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Using pictures or diagrams to explain something
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Shows something as a sign of an idea or quality
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Using simple pictures to show meaning instead of words
How Iconographic
Surface Forms
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.