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Definition of Classicise
1. Verb. Make classic or classical.
Definition of Classicise
1. Verb. (alternative spelling of classicize) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Literary usage of Classicise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poets of the Younger Generation by William Archer (1902)
"... lines of The Death of Admiral Blake are very noble in their effect; but I
suggest that Mr. Newbolt should classicise with caution. ..."
2. Miscellaneous Essays by George E. Saintsbury (1892)
"So far was it from endeavouring to classicise English style, that most of its
alterations were distinctly directed towards freeing English from ..."
3. A History of the Three Cathedrals Dedicated to St. Paul in London: With by William Longman (1873)
"... on Gothic architecture, for there was no doubt that, in his early career, Sir
Christopher Wren had proposed to classicise the nave of Old St. Paul's. ..."
4. A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury (1912)
"A good deal of controversy has arisen out of the attribution to him, which is at
least as old as The Return from Parnassus, of being minded to classicise ..."
5. Primer of French Literature by George Saintsbury (1888)
"sought to classicise themselves as much as was possible. They brought into French
Latin words by the hundred, and endeavoured even to naturalise the ..."
6. Le mouvement poétique franc̜ais de 1867 à 1900: Rapport à M. le ministre de by Catulle Mendès (1903)
"Où en faut-il chercher la cause? en ceci, que les adaptations de l'excellent
Ducis l'avaient quelque peu к classicise ^ ? je ..."
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