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Definition of Anticlassical
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anticlassical
Literary usage of Anticlassical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Latin and Greek in American Education: With Symposia on the Value of by Francis Willey Kelsey (1911)
"But the practical alternative which anticlassical fanaticism at present offers
is formulated by one of your own faculty with the unconscious irony of ..."
2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1812)
"... his own hair neatly powdered, and, we conjecture, terminating, ' to us
invisible,' in that most. anticlassical and undignified exuberance, a tail! ..."
3. A Classical Tour Through Italy, An. MDCCCII.by John Chetwode Eustace by John Chetwode Eustace (1821)
"But, as the subject is, if not strictly speaking Gothic, at least anticlassical,
I may be allowed to exclude ..."
4. Educational Foundations of Trade and Industry by Fabian Arthur Goulstone Ware (1901)
"In 1890, a conference was summoned to consider certain changes, mostly of a
modernizing and anticlassical nature, which the Emperor advocated for Prussian ..."
5. Outlines of School Administration by Arthur Cecil Perry (1912)
"The academies expressed the anticlassical protest, but they were not sufficiently
democratic and in turn gave way to the high schools. ..."
6. Lectures on Painting: Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy by Edward Armitage (1883)
"... and it is because the present French school is intensely anticlassical that
the paintings of the first Empire are looked upon with loathing. ..."
7. A Tour Through Italy: Exhibiting a View of Its Scenery, Its Antiquities, and by John Chetwode Eustace (1813)
"But, as the subject is, if not strictly speaking Gothic, at least anticlassical,
I may be allowed to exclude it from these sketches, and instead of a ..."
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