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Classically

Classically \Clas"sic*al*ly\, adv.

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

  2. In the manner of classes; according to a regular order of classes or sets.

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classically

adv. 1 In a classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors. 2 In the manner of classes; according to a regular order of classes or sets.

WordNet
classically

adv. in the manner of Greek and Roman culture; "this exercise develops a classically shaped body"

Usage examples of "classically".

One might even - knowing the importance that the Mercatoria attaches to reconnecting all the many, many systems which have been without Arteria access all these millennia - wonder why the expedition from Zenerre to Ulubis with a new portal was dispatched with such alacrity, given the arguably still greater claims that more populous, more classically strategically important and more at-the-time obviously threatened systems might have had upon the resources and expertise of our esteemed colleagues in the Engineering faculty.

Classically, a stock exhibiting this behavior goes on to break through its earlier intraday high.

His bookstore, at a central situation by the Park, with works of taste classically displayed, afforded an admirable lounge for the litterateurs of that day.

A fetishist has been classically defined as a person who derives sexual gratification from a nonsexual part of the body or an inanimate object.

The Consul-General, Lord Quinnipiac, was a rough-featured man with blue marbled eyes set in a classically aristocratic horsey face.

As an ever-increasing number of prospective students were wooed by high-tech careers in biochemistry and genetics, the shortage of classically trained archivists, taxonomists, and systematists big-picture researchers was in danger of undermining the entire foundation of biological science.

But in truth all general terms are popularly and classically used in somewhat different senses.

A young lady, on whom all eyes were bent, and whose beauty might have served the painter for a model of Semiramis or Zenobia, more majestic than became her years, and so classically faultless as to have something cold and statue-like in its haughty lineaments, was moving through the crowd that murmured applauses as she passed.

Einstein obtained through Riemannian geometry and gravitational tensors was derived classically by a German called Paul Gerber, in 1898, when Einstein was nine years old.

Indian or Pakistani and is glossily dark but with a sort of weirdly classically white-type face you could easily imagine profiling on a coin, plus teeth you could read by the gleam of.

His works are abundant with references and metaphors that only a thoroughly classically educated reader can appreciate to their fullest extent, and his archaic, elegant prose makes him something of an anachronism in our day.

The great masters of finance were the classically trained orators William Pitt and Charles James Fox.

Jessy wore an ivory suit with a collarless jacket cut in a classically simple design.

I find on looking at the booksellers' catalogues that one Bigel, or Bigelius, to speak more classically, has been at various times publishing Homoeopathic books for some years.

Cocktails's method of investigation is classically simple: he beats up everybody he meets until they confess or reveal something that gives him a lead.