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classicize en · VERB

Etymology

From classic + -ize.

Meanings

1. 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:
2. 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:

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classicization