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  1. adjective Of or relating to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially their art, architecture, and literature.
  2. adjective Conforming to the artistic and literary models of ancient Greece and Rome.
  3. adjective Versed in the classics: a classical scholar.

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  • These symmetrical and twaddling constructions—classical, and neo-classical sonatas and symphonies—exasperated Christophe, who, at that time, was not very sensible of the beauty of order, and vast and well-conceived plans. —  Jean-Christophe, Vol. I
  • While HD-PTP has been described as a classical non-transmembrane PTP based on its amino acid sequence, our results demonstrate that it is a catalytically inactive tyrosine phosphatase. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • The subjects are various,--classical, academical, political, critical, and artistic, as well as theological, and upon the Movement none are to be found which do not keep quite clear of advocating the cause of Rome So I went on for years up to 1841. —  Apologia Pro Vita Sua
  • His brilliant work on the development of the ear-ossicles founded what we may justly call the classical theory of their homologies. —  Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
  • It is another kind of art that studies character in detail, one by one, and then sets them playing at chance medley, and trusts to luck that the result will be entertaining That Aristotle is confirmed by these barbarian auxiliaries is of no great importance to Aristotle, but it is worth arguing that the barbarous German imagination at an earlier stage, relatively, than the Homeric, is found already possessed of something like the sanity of judgment, the discrimination of essentials from accidents, which is commonly indicated by the term classical. —  Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature
 

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  1. from classic + -al; = Dutch klassikaal.
  2. from Latin classicus, belonging to a fleet (from classis, a fleet, a class: see class, n., and classic), + -al.
 

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