classicalist (klasikalist)

[ cla icalne . cla ically (klas'i-kal-i), adv. 1. In the manner of a cla ic; according to the manner of cla ic authors. Milton found again the long-lost secret of being cla i cally elegant without being pedantically cold. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 387. works serve as a standard or model; primarily and specifically, a Greek or Roman author of this character, but also a writer of like character in any nation. But, high above, more solid learning shone, The cla ics of an age that heard of none. Pope , Dunciad, i. 148. It at once raised him to the rank of a legitimate English cla ic . Macaulay. 2. A literary production of the first cla or rank; specifically, in the plural, the literature of ancient Greece and Rome. Under the tuition of Mr. Reynolds he was for some time instructed in the cla ics. Malone, Sir J. Reynolds. A cla ic is properly a book which maintains itself by virtue of that happy coalescence of matter and style, that innate and requisite sympathy between the thought that gives life and the form that consents to every mood of grace and dignity, and which is something neither ancient nor modern, always new and incapable of grow ing old. Lowell , Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 126. The present practice of making the cla ics of a lan guage the vehicle elementary grammatical instruction cannot be too strongly condemned. When the cla ics of a language are ground into children who are incapable of appreciating them, the result is often to create a permanent disgust for literature generally. H. Sweet , Spelling Reform (1885), p. 13. 3. One versed in the cla ics. - Chinese cla ics, the sacred books of the Chinese. See king2. cla ic all (klas'i-kal), a. [ He [Sheridan] brought away from school a very slender provision of cla ical learning. Brougham , Sheridan. The chief end of cla ical studies was perhaps as often reached then [time of Josiah Quincy] as now, in giving a young man a love for something apart from and above the more vulgar a ociations of life. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 103. (6) Pertaining to writers of the first rank among the moderns; constituting the best model or authority as a composition or an author. Mr. Greaves, who may be justly reckoned a cla ical author on this subject. Arbuthnot, Anc. Coins. Hence-2. In general, of the first rank, or constituting a model, in its kind; having in a high degree the qualities which constitute excellence in its kind: as, a cla ical work of art.-3. Same as cla ic, 2 and 3.-4. ( a ) Pertaining to a cla ; of the taxonomic rank or grade of a cla . Unwilling to give similar cla ical characters to both of his primary divisions, Cæsalp in us has pa ed over what at first is most striking in the form of trees. Rees , Cyc., Cla ification. (b) Belonging to cla ification; cla ificatory. Mr. Hammond's Preface to the American i ue of Mr. Sandars's well-known edition of the "Institutes of Just in i an" contains much the best defence I have seen of the cla ical distribution of law. Maine , Early Law and Custom, p. 365. 5. In some Reformed churches, relating to or of the nature of a cla is or cla . See cla is, 2. And what doth make a cla ical eldership to be a presbytery? Good win, Works, IV. 114. cla ical2t, a. [L. cla ic us , belonging to a fleet ( cla is , a fleet, a cla : see cla , n., and cla ic ), + -al .] Belonging or pertaining to a fleet. [Rare.] Certaine fragments concerning the beginnings, antiquities, and grouth of the cla ical and warre-like shipping of this Island [England]. Hakluyt's Voyages , To the Reader. cla icalism (klas'i-kal-izm), n. [ cla ical + -ism.] 1. A cla ic idiom or style; cla icism. -2. In art , attempted adherence to the rules of Greek or Roman art; imitation of cla ic art. We shall find in it [Renai ance architecture] partly the root, partly the expre ion, of certain dominant evils of modern times-over-sophistication and ignorant cla ical ism . Ruskin. sets. It would be impo ible to bear all its specific details in the memory if they were not cla ically arranged. R. Ker . cla icalne (klas'i-kal-nes), n. [ cla ical +-ne .] Same as cla icality . cla icism (klás'i-sizm), n . [ cla ic + -ism; = F. cla ic is me = It. cla icismo .] 1. An idiom or the style of the cla ics.-2. The adoption or imitation of what is cla ical or cla ic in style. The first [kind of verse] was that of an art-school, taking its models from old English poetry, and from the deli cate cla icism of Landor and Keats. Stedman , Vict. Poets, p. 4.