Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Conformed to or characterized by classicism: as, the classicistic drama; the classicistic period of architecture.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective of or pertaining to classicism.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to classicism.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to classicists.
  • adjective Emulating classical rules, conventions, principles, models, or styles; characterised by classicism.

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  • adjective of or relating to classicism

Etymologies

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Formed as classicist +‎ -ic, perhaps after the German klassizistisch.

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Examples

  • All the detail at Granada is classicistic, but the whole is often of Gothic effect, especially in the mass of those clustered Corinthian columns that lift its domes aloof on their prodigious bulk, huge as that of the grouped pillars in the York Minster.

    Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

  • The Empire style of Napoleon is classicistic: but Napoleon carried Werther and Ossian about with him.

    CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968

  • This early hint at the rationalist explanation of chance images corresponds to the classicistic taste that domi - nated Roman art of the late Republic and the Augustan era (note the references to classic Greek masters).

    CHANCE IMAGES H. W. JANSON 1968

  • The failure of classicistic art in a non-classical age, of "Pre-Raphaelitism" after

    The Principles of Aesthetics Dewitt H. Parker

  • In point of fact it was the classicistic Catullus and Calvus, of the simple, limpid lyrics, written in pure unalloyed every-day Latin, that taught the new generation to reject the later Hellenistic style of Catullus and Calvus as illustrated in the verse romances.

    Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922

  • In the morning they discovered that their windows looked out on the grand-ducal museum, with a gardened space before and below its classicistic bulk, where, in a whim of the weather, the gay flowers were full of sun.

    Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 3 William Dean Howells 1878

  • They rested their sensibilities, so bruised and fretted by Gothic angles and points, against the smooth surfaces of the prevailing classicistic facades of the houses as they passed, and when they arrived at their hotel, an old mansion of Versailles type, fronting on a long irregular square planted with pollard sycamores, they said that it might as well have been Lucca.

    Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 3 William Dean Howells 1878

  • All the detail at Granada is classicistic, but the whole is often of Gothic effect, especially in the mass of those clustered Corinthian columns that lift its domes aloof on their prodigious bulk, huge as that of the grouped pillars in the York

    Familiar Spanish Travels William Dean Howells 1878

  • They rested their sensibilities, so bruised and fretted by Gothic angles and points, against the smooth surfaces of the prevailing classicistic facades of the houses as they passed, and when they arrived at their hotel, an old mansion of Versailles type, fronting on a long irregular square planted with pollard sycamores, they said that it might as well have been Lucca.

    Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

  • In the morning they discovered that their windows looked out on the grand-ducal museum, with a gardened space before and below its classicistic bulk, where, in a whim of the weather, the gay flowers were full of sun.

    Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

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