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tate, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category. There is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category. De Quincey.

Of or pertaining to the Celts; as, Celtic people, tribes, literature, tongue. [Written also Keltic.]

As a proper name, a fox; -- so called in fables and familiar literature.

A masterpiece; a capital work in art, literature, etc.

Chief or commander; in Spanish literature, a title of Ruy Diaz, Count of Bivar, a champion of Christianity and of the old Spanish royalty, in the 11th century.

A student or imitator of the art or literature of the Cinquecento.

The sixteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the Cinquecento; Cinquecento style.

One learned in the literature of Greece and Rome, or a student of classical literature.

Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art. Give, as thy last memorial to the age, One classic drama, and reform the stage. Byron. Mr. Greaves may justly be reckoned a classical author on this subject [Roman weights and coins]. Arbuthnot.

An association of persons for the promotion of some common object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.; esp. an association supported by equal assessments or contributions of the members. They talked At wine, in clubs, of art, of politics. Tennyson. He [Goldsmith] was one of the nine original member…

down their ill nature. I. Watts. You know who the critics are the men who have failed in literature and art. Beaconsfield.

A critical examination or estimate of a work of literature or art; a critical dissertation or essay; a careful and through analysis of any subject; a criticism; as, Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason." I should as soon expect to see a critique on the poesy of a ring as on the inscription of a medal. Addison.…

to devote time and thought to; to foster; to cherish. Leisure . . . to cultivate general literature. Wordsworth.

One who cultivates; as, a cultivator of the soil; a cultivator of literature. Whewell.

In general, the literature or history of the art.

ne of strength; the decline of virtue and religion. Their fathers lived in the decline of literature. Swift.

or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc. Decoration Day, a day, May 30, appointed for decorating with flowers the graves of the Union soldiers and sailors, who fell in the Civil War in the United States; Memorial Day. [U.S.]

appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature. Macaulay.

The state or quality of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.

his business he shall stand before kings. Prov. xxii. 29. Diligent cultivation of elegant literature. Prescott.