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classicize

[ klas-uh-sahyz ]

verb (used with object)

classicized, classicizing.
  1. to make classic.


verb (used without object)

classicized, classicizing.
  1. to conform to the classic style.

classicize

/ ˈ°ì±ôæ²õɪˌ²õ²¹Éª³ú /

verb

  1. tr to make classic
  2. intr to imitate classical style
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of classicize1

First recorded in 1850–55; classic + -ize
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The cartoonish face on a classicized statue jump-starts the statue with an incongruity that magnetizes passers-by.

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That embedment can take place through the weight of the stainless steel or the careful soldering of the aluminum, or the classicized majesty he brings to his subjects.

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From one perspective she may just be a classicized pinup model, but consider also the four mascarons at bottom that frame the tumbling nude.

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The artist proves himself no less adept at the characteristic motion of a very different kind of theater, the stately, self-possessed, classicizing motion of the opera house.

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But what the classicized statue implies is that certain ideals, notably liberty and justice for all, endure beyond any individual presidential biography, and those ideals are not invalidated when our leaders flout them.

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