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Definition of Classicist
1. Noun. An artistic person who adheres to classicism.
2. Noun. A student of ancient Greek and Latin.
Generic synonyms: Humanist
Specialized synonyms: Latinist
Specialized synonyms: Benjamin Jowett, Jowett, George Gilbert Aime Murphy, Gilbert Murray, Murray, Friedrich August Wolf, Wolf
Derivative terms: Classics
Definition of Classicist
1. n. One learned in the classics; an advocate for the classics.
Definition of Classicist
1. Noun. a classical scholar, especially one who studies ancient Greek and Latin language and culture ¹
2. Noun. a follower of classicism ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Classicist
1. [n -S]
Literary usage of Classicist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outlines of English Literature by Thomas Budd Shaw, Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1866)
"David Hume —As Historian—As Moralist and Metaphysician—Attacks on Revealed
Religion—William Robertson—Defects of the "classicist" Historians— Edward Gibbon ..."
2. The Influence of Plautus on the Comedies of Ben Jonson by Eleanor Patience Lumley (1901)
"The theories," says Dr. Schelling, "which Ben Jonson held about literature, were
those of a classicist. He believed in the criticism of Horace, ..."
3. The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine (1867)
"William Smith, the eminent lexicographer and classicist vice Mr. Macpherson.
A memoir of Gen. James Ogle- thorpe, founder of Georgia, and friend of Dr. ..."
4. A Group of Englishmen (1795 to 1815) Being Records of the Younger Wedgwoods by Eliza Meteyard (1871)
"... Instruction in Classics—Bentley a stout classicist—Darwin and Wedgwood lose
sight of the Main Point—The French Tutor—School Programme—John Wedgwood sent ..."
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