| 释义 |
classicize, v.|ˈklæsɪsaɪz|
[f. classic + -ize.]
a. trans. To make classic.
b. intr. To affect or imitate classic style or form. Hence ˈclassicizing, vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1854Chamb. Jrnl. I. 124 She looked like a Greek statue that had come alive, and by mere contact classicised its modern dress. 1859Jephson Brittany xviii. 300 The original chateau..appears to have been classicized in the seventeenth century. 1884Seeley in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 502 The partial failure of his classicising experiments. 1887Saintsbury Elizab. Lit. i. 23 The translation mania and the classicising mania together led to the production of perhaps the most absurd book in all literature [Stanyhurst's æneid]. |