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like character in any language. In is once raised him to the rank of a legitimate English classic. Macaulay.

lass 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.

A classical idiom, style, or expression; a classicism.

One who adheres to what he thinks the classical canons of art. Ruskin.

The quality of being classical.

In a classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors.

A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.

One learned in the classics; an advocate for the classics.

Belonging to, or designating, the modern revival of classical, esp. Greco-Roman, taste and manner of work in architecture, etc.

All that architecture which, since the beginning of the Italian Renaissance, about 1420, has been designed with deliberate imitation of Greco-Roman buildings.

Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific. "Academic courses." Warburton. "Academical study." Berkeley.

Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls.

An epithet applied to editions (chiefly of the classics) which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to certain elegant editions of English works.…

An ornament of the cymatium of a classic cornice, sometimes pierced for the escape of water.

r division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column.

ns, its principal city; marked by such qualities as were characteristic of the Athenians; classical; refined. Attic base (Arch.), a peculiar form of molded base for a column or pilaster, described by Vitruvius, applied under the Roman Empire to the Ionic and Corinthian and "Roman Doric" orders, and imitated by the arch…

Not classical or correct. "Base Latin." Fuller.

A concave molding; -- used chiefly in classical architecture. See Illust. of Calumn.

e in moderate three-four measure, like the Passacaglia, which is slower. Both are used by classical composers as themes for variations.

To purify from errors or faults; to refine. They [classics] chasten and enlarge the mind, and excite to noble actions. Layard.