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UK
/klˈæsɪsˌɪst/
]
[ US /ˈkɫæsəsəst/ ]
[ US /ˈkɫæsəsəst/ ]
NOUN
- an artistic person who adheres to classicism
- a student of ancient Greek and Latin
How To Use classicist In A Sentence
- These seventeen new pieces by some of the world's leading classicists have been brought together to celebrate the bimillenary of the Horace's death.
- Educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, he began as a classicist, was a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and then professor of Greek at Sydney.
- Chapter 1 deals with sources which will be unfamiliar to all but classicists, and surveys the influence of various Greek conceptual models on the gender constructs of Rome in the last century BCE and first century CE.
- It then seemed to the classicists that the real wages, or means of subsistence, had to be advanced to the laborers.
- Rhodes University classicist John Jackson told Sapa "cano" did mean sing. ANC Daily News Briefing
- This seems entirely fitting for a composer who has often been content to embrace classicist formal integration and resist modernist formal fragmentation.
- After a brief stint as a literary critic in the columns of L' Indicatore Genovese on the side of the romanticists against classicists, he found his way into the secret society of the carbonari to conspire and agitate for government reform.
- Arthur Waley, a Cambridge classicist who taught himself Japanese and Chinese, produced the first English translation in six instalments between 1925 and 1933.
- The palmette capitals of the tree-like columns are not lotus-blossom capitals, as Weinberg and other classicists once supposed, much less “proto-Aeolic” capitals as William F. Albright thought. Archive 2008-02-01
- At the core a classicist, albeit with modernist leanings, he has not abandoned tradition but given the Toronto-based company a fresh image - youthful, creative and adventurous.