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CLASSIC,


CLAS'SIC, n.

  1. An author of the first rank; a writer whose style is pure, correct, and refined; primarily, a Greek or Roman author of this character; but the word is applied to writers of a like character in any nation. – Pope.
  2. A book written by an author of the first class.

Clas"sic
  1. Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.

    Give, as thy last memorial to the age,
    One classic drama, and reform the stage.
    Byron.

    Mr. Greaves may justly be reckoned a classical author on this subject [Roman weights and coins].
    Arbuthnot.

  2. A work of acknowledged excellence and authority, or its author; -- originally used of Greek and Latin works or authors, but now applied to authors and works of a like character in any language.

    In is once raised him to the rank of a legitimate English classic.
    Macaulay.

  3. Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, esp. to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.

    Though throned midst Latium's classic plains.
    Mrs. Hemans.

    The epithet classical, as applied to ancient authors, is determined less by the purity of their style than by the period at which they wrote.
    Brande *** C.

    He [Atterbury] directed the classical studies of the undergraduates of his college.
    Macaulay.

  4. One learned in the literature of Greece and Rome, or a student of classical literature.
  5. Conforming to the best authority in literature and art] chaste; pure; refined; as, a classical style.

    Classical, provincial, and national synods.
    Macaulay.

    Classicals orders. (Arch.) See under Order.

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CLASSIC,

CLASSICAL, adjective

1. Relating to ancient Greek and Roman authors of the first rank or estimation, which, in modern times, have been and still are studied as the best models of fine writing. Thus, Aristotle, Plato, Demosthenes, Thucydides, etc., among the Greeks, and Cicero, Virgil, Livy, Sallust, Cesar, and Tacitus, among the Latins, are classical authors. Hence,

2. Pertaining to writers of the first rank among the moderns; being of the first order; constituting the best model or authority as an author; as, Addison and Johnson are English classical writers. Hence classical denotes pure, chaste, correct, refined; as a classical taste; a classical style.

At Liverpool, Roscoe is like Pompeys column at Alexandria, towering alone in classic dignity.

3. Denoting an order of presbyterian assemblies.

CLASSIC, noun

1. An author of the first rank; a writer whose style is pure, correct, and refined; primarily, a Greek or Roman author of this character; but the word is applied to writers of a like character in any nation.

2. A book written by an author of the first class.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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BUFFOON'ERY, n. The arts and practices of a buffoon; low jests; ridiculous pranks; vulgar tricks and postures.

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