classicize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
verb
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(tr) to make classic
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(intr) to imitate classical style
Etymology
Origin of classicize
Example Sentences
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It was enough for him to classicize the realistic incident.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley
The cartoonish face on a classicized statue jump-starts the statue with an incongruity that magnetizes passers-by.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2022
That embedment can take place through the weight of the stainless steel or the careful soldering of the aluminum, or the classicized majesty he brings to his subjects.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2022
It was an architectural space exuberantly of its age, right on the boundary between the classicized past and the industrialized future.
From Time Magazine Archive
He saw the consummate art and artificiality of Wagner, and preferred it to all other music, at a time when the German master was ignored and despised by a classicized musical world.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
The church has been an interesting building of Norman date, but was extensively classicized in the last century.
From Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James
The artist proves himself no less adept at the characteristic motion of a very different kind of theater, the stately, self-possessed, classicizing motion of the opera house.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2019
If you want Della Robbia to express a classicizing purity — like blue-and-white Wedgewood china — then the push toward chromatic verisimilitude is unnerving.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2017
It’s a little different from the alternately classicizing and primitivizing take on the black figure in photographs by the Boston artist F. Holland Day at the end of the 19th century.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2016
Even his “Cleopatra” was a classicizing view of democratic pageantry, a spectacular vision of the age of Kennedy.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 14, 2014
For all its air of subtlety and severity and profundity, its learned and classicizing manner, the music of Reger is really superficial.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
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