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Definition of Classical

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the most highly developed stage of an earlier civilisation and its culture. "Classic Cinese pottery"

2. Noun. Traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste.

3. Adjective. Of recognized authority or excellence. "Classical methods of navigation"

4. Adjective. Of or relating to the study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome. " a classical scholar"

5. Adjective. (language) having the form used by ancient standard authors. "Classical Greek"

6. Adjective. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greek and Roman cultures. "Classical mythology"

Definition of Classical

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to established principles in a discipline. ¹

3. Adjective. (music) Describing European music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. ¹

4. Adjective. (informal music) Describing serious music (rather than pop, jazz, blues etc), especially when played using instruments of the orchestra. ¹

5. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds. ¹

6. Adjective. Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined; as, a classical style. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Classical

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Literary usage of Classical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein (1921)
"WE have already stated several times that classical mechanics starts out from the ... Both in classical mechanics and in the special theory of relativity we ..."

2. French Classicism by Charles Henry Conrad Wright (1920)
"CHAPTER I THE Classical SPIRIT THE student of French literature has read only a few pages when he comes upon the word Classicism. ..."

3. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1909)
"CHAPTER I Englishmen and the Classical Renascence THE classical renascence implied a knowledge and imitation of the great literary artists of the golden ..."

4. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1903)
"THE ADVANTAGES WHICH ACCRUE FROM A Classical EDUCATION. ... Yet French, Spanish, Portugese, Italian and modern Greek are but play to the classical scholar, ..."

5. A History of Greek Literature: From the Earliest Period to the Death of by Frank Byron Jevons (1892)
"Classical Greek Literature begins with Homer, and ends practically, if not precisely, with the death of Demosthenes. During this period Greece was free. ..."

6. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"Side by side with this " French School " we find the " Classical": of which Vergil was the fountain-head and main inspiration. ..."

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