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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
classicist
noun
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▪ At the same time I really believe that stirred bartenders on to create new classics in a classicist vein.
▪ Because such systems do not take into account the variation in individuals, they are generally only of interest to the classicist.
▪ In the first place, I am no classicist.
▪ Lefkowitz, a classicist and humanities professor at Wellesley College, puts paid to Afrocentric myth-making.
▪ The classicist Lionel Casson says that although life without lawyers may seem inconceivable,...
▪ The editor will continue to be anthropologist, art historian and classicist Francesco Pellizzi.
▪ The theatre was rebuilt in a heavily ornamental classicist style, complete with doric columns and decorative masks.
▪ To understand the classicists it helps to have some understanding of what they were reacting against.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Classicist

Classicist \Clas"si*cist\, n. One learned in the classics; an advocate for the classics.

Wiktionary
classicist

n. 1 A classical scholar, especially one who studies ancient Greek and Latin language and culture. 2 A follower of classicism.

WordNet
classicist

  1. n. an artistic person who adheres to classicism [ant: romanticist]

  2. a student of ancient Greek and Latin [syn: classical scholar]

Usage examples of "classicist".

A classicist, a Romance specialist, even an Americanist focuses on a relatively modest portion of the world, not on a full half of it.

There were giant beaverlike creatures that seemed to have existed in human myth, according to my friend of the time, Renard, who was a classicist.

The Classicists and Romantics who hated it were unaware of the potential greatness of the twenty-fifth century.

Then he had been picked up by one Antor Trelig, who needed a classicist for his neo-Roman library on New Pompeii and addicted him to sponge.

Some French classicist of the eighteenth century complained that the Creator had seriously fallen down on the job by failing to arrange the stars with any elegant symmetry, for they seem to be sprayed through space like the droplets from a breaking wave.

Oskar attributes this anomaly to the influence of Maruhn, who was not a fanatic of coal-black expression but a classicist, alert to the Goethean clarity of my eyes.

Lest Darkness Fall asked if a modern day American classicist, who conveniently knew Latin, could save Rome from itself.

What would you say to you and me, Julia and Celia, Karl and Eva, and perhaps old Neil, though let's pray he doesn't bring that scrawny classicist from Somerville.

Sprague DeCamp's Lest Darkness Fall asked if a modern day American classicist, who conveniently knew Latin, could save Rome from itself.

This was one of the questions which Scrope, as a competent classicist, liked to ponder.

Dan Needham lived in Water-house Hall, so named for some deceased curmudgeon of a classicist, a Latin teacher named Amos Waterhouse, whose rendering of Christmas carols in Latin-I was sure-could not have been worse than the gloomy muddle made of them by Dan and Owen Meany.