classicist

[ klas-uh-sist ]

/ ˈklæs ə sɪst /

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noun

an adherent of classicism in literature or art (contrasted with romanticist).

an authority on the classics; a classical scholar.

a person who advocates study of the ancient Greek and Roman classics.

Nearby words

classical physics, classical probability, classical sanskrit, classical school, classicism, classicist, classicize, classics, classification, classification schedule, classified

Also clas·si·cal·ist

[klas-i-kuh-list] /ˈklæs ɪ kə lɪst/.

Origin of classicist

First recorded in 1820–30; classic + -ist

Related forms

an·ti·clas·si·cal·ist, noun, adjectivean·ti·clas·si·cist, noun, adjective

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Examples from the Web for classicist

An Oxford-trained classicist, he was elected president of the Oxford Union, a post filled by several future premiers.
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Shortly before his death in 1882, Charles Darwin received a letter from a physician and classicist named William Ogle.
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Classicist James Romm writes that we have replaced head-to-head competition with collaboration and self-expression.
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Stendhal has written that a classicist is a dead romanticist.
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In his study of men of science Ostwald has introduced the distinction of classicist and romanticist.
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He is a sentimental Classicist, and his subjects the antithesis of the Grco-Roman ideal to which he does homage in his technique.
The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4)|Richard Muther
A man so equipped was essentially a man of letters: a great deal more than a classicist, but a classicist first and foremost.
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He was a classicist who wrote with perfect coolness, just as others had written before him.
A History of American Literature Since 1870|Fred Lewis Pattee

British Dictionary definitions for classicist

classicist

classicalist (ˈklæsɪkəlɪst)

/ (ˈklæsɪsɪst) /

noun

a student of ancient Latin and Greek
a person who advocates the study of ancient Latin and Greek

an adherent of classicism in literature or art

Derived Forms

classicistic, adjective

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classicist

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classicist

classicalist (ˈklæsɪkəlɪst)

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