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Definition of Classicize
1. Verb. Make classic or classical.
Definition of Classicize
1. Verb. To make classic. ¹
2. Verb. To conform to the classic style. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Classicize
1. [v -CIZED, -CIZING, -CIZES]
Literary usage of Classicize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Theological Studies by Oxford Journals (Oxford University Press) (1906)
"... I am disposed to believe that editors of late Greek and Latin texts arc often
too prone to classicize what they find in the MSS. io. ..."
2. Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century by Henry Osborn Taylor (1920)
"the essential feebleness and sheer academic quality of whatever the humanists
had said or done to re-classicize and maintain the literary vitality of Latin. ..."
3. The Italian Renaissance in England: Studies by Lewis Einstein (1902)
"A set-back was, however, experienced in the attempt to classicize English poetry;
Hall satirized the movement,3 and it received its death-blow in Daniel's ..."
4. The Rise of Formal Satire in England Under Classical Influence by Raymond Macdonald Alden (1899)
"In like manner it was only the earlier imitators who succeeded in the effort to
classicize their style. We have thus followed the progress of the formal ..."
5. Richard the Third Up to Shakespeare by George Bosworth Churchill (1900)
"The following illustrates Legge's desire to classicize wherever possible. For the
general statement of Hall, p. 358, "The brother hath been the brother's ..."
6. Specimens of English Prose Style: From Malory to Macaulay by George Saintsbury (1885)
"So far was it from endeavouring to classicize English style, that most of its
alterations were distinctly directed towards freeing English from the too ..."
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