Classible

Susceptible of cla ification. Clas's ic, Cla ical, a. and n. [Lat. cla ic us; Fr. cla i que.] (Lit.) In antiquity, the Roman people were divided into cla es, and the highest order were, by preeminence, termed cla ic i. Hence the name came to be applied figuratively to writers of the highest rank, and this is the sense in which it is commonly used at the present day. The highest and purest cla of writers in any language are termed the cla ics ; but, in a more limited sense, the name is given to the best writers of ancient Greece and Rome. In another sense, and as opposed to modern, it is applied to the productions of ancient Greece and Rome. See ROMANTIC. (Fine Arts.) A term denoting that the principle of the arrangement of a subject is such as would have suggested itself to the minds of architects, or artists, of the early, and the more decidedly cla ical, period; in which the acce ories or the parts of a design are suitable to its general character, and such that nothing can be introduced which does not strictly belong to the particular cla under which it is placed. Cla ical, a . Pertaining to the first rank or cla in modern literature and art; conforming to the chief order of talent and highest authority in taste; pure; refined; as, a cla ical style. ( Eccl .) Pertaining to a cla is, or ecclesiastical judicatory.