Meanings
noun
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of scenery.
To make a Sketch, or a more perfect Model of a Picture, is in the Language of Poets, to draw up the Scenary of a Play, and the reaſon is the ſame for both; to guide the Undertaking, and to preſerve the Remembrance of ſuch things, whoſe Natures are difficult to retain.
1695, John Dryden, “Preface of the Translator, with a Parallel, of Poetry and Painting”, in C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC, page xliv
Origin
Compare Latin scenarius (“belonging to the stage”).
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APA
scenary. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scenary
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Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “scenary,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scenary.
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