Meanings
present singular third person classicizes · participle present classicizing · participle past classicized · past classicized · alternative classicise
- To make classic.
Another approach is exemplified by the performance group known as Mahligai […] which drew on traditional forms in an attempt to classicize them.
2002, R. Anderson Sutton, Calling Back the Spirit: Music, Dance, and Cultural Politics in Lowland South Sulawesi, Oxford University Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 83 - To conform to the classic style.
Mies' style, for all of its obvious modernity, is essentially rather classicizing […]
1974 January 20, Paul Goldberger, “Mies Art Pavilion Opens In Houston”, in Eugene Register-Guard
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
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