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- Classical - n. - Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
- Classical - n. - Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, esp. 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.
- Classical - n. - Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined; as, a classical style.
- Classicalism - n. - A classical idiom, style, or expression; a classicism.
- Classicalism - n. - Adherence to what are supposed or assumed to be the classical canons of art.
- Classicalist - n. - One who adheres to what he thinks the classical canons of art.
- Classicality - n. - Alt. of Classicalness
- Classically - adv. - In a classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors.
- Classically - adv. - In the manner of classes; according to a regular order of classes or sets.
- Classicalness - n. - The quality of being classical.
- Johnsonese - n. - The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words.
- In antis - - Between antae; -- said of a portico in classical style, where columns are set between two antae, forming the angles of the building. See Anta.
- Order - n. - The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural designing.
- Pediment - n. - Originally, in classical architecture, the triangular space forming the gable of a simple roof; hence, a similar form used as a decoration over porticoes, doors, windows, etc.; also, a rounded or broken frontal having a similar position and use. See Temple.
- Classicalism - n. - A classical idiom, style, or expression; a classicism.
- Plinth - n. - In classical architecture, a vertically faced member immediately below the circular base of a column; also, the lowest member of a pedestal; hence, in general, the lowest member of a base; a sub-base; a block upon which the moldings of an architrave or trim are stopped at the bottom. See Illust. of Column.
- Classically - adv. - In a classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors.
- Pentastyle - a. - Having five columns in front; -- said of a temple or portico in classical architecture.
- Sanskrit - n. - The ancient language of the Hindoos, long since obsolete in vernacular use, but preserved to the present day as the literary and sacred dialect of India. It is nearly allied to the Persian, and to the principal languages of Europe, classical and modern, and by its more perfect preservation of the roots and forms of the primitive language from which they are all descended, is a most important assistance in determining their history and relations. Cf. Prakrit, and Veda.
- Classical - n. - Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined; as, a classical style.
- Humanity - n. - Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in classical and polite literature.
- Romanticism - n. - A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi/val forms and methods in opposition to the so-called classical style.
- Architrave - n. - The lower division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column.
- Daisy - n. - A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositae. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays.
- Chaconne - n. - An old Spanish dance in moderate three-four measure, like the Passacaglia, which is slower. Both are used by classical composers as themes for variations.
- Flute - v. i. - A channel of curved section; -- usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture. See Illust. under Base, n.
- Classicalism - n. - Adherence to what are supposed or assumed to be the classical canons of art.
- Base - a. - Not classical or correct.
- Text-book - n. - A volume, as of some classical author, on which a teacher lectures or comments; hence, any manual of instruction; a schoolbook.
- Renaissance - n. - The transitional movement in Europe, marked by the revival of classical learning and art in Italy in the 15th century, and the similar revival following in other countries.
- Classic - n. - One learned in the literature of Greece and Rome, or a student of classical literature.
- Attic - a. - A low story above the main order or orders of a facade, in the classical styles; -- a term introduced in the 17th century. Hence:
- Revive - v. i. - Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
- Wedge - n. - The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos; -- so called after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.
- Hades - n. - The nether world (according to classical mythology, the abode of the shades, ruled over by Hades or Pluto); the invisible world; the grave.