Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the manner of a classic; according to the manner of classic authors.
- According to a regular order of classes or sets.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors.
- adverb In the manner of classes; according to a regular order of classes or sets.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors. - adverb In the manner of
classes ; according to a regular order of classes or sets.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in the manner of Greek and Roman culture
Etymologies
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Examples
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While certain classically trained actors view time spent in Hollywood as some combination of craven, shameful and selling-out, Mr. Stewart — whose baritone is, as ever, like dark jam — refuses any part of that script.
Spacecraft to Stage Craft Joanne Kaufman 2010
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[EN#23] The word classically means the cypress or the juniper-tree: in Jeremiah, where it occurs twice (xvii. 6 and xlviii. 6), the Authorized Version renders it by "heath."
The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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181 The word classically means the cypress or the juniper-tree: in Jeremiah, where it occurs twice (xvii. 6 and xlviii. 6), the Authorized Version renders it by
The Land of Midian 2003
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I think your first entry got me thinking about Apatow a lot though, cause I kept recalling the classically strange and awkward dates from the great series Freaks and Geeks, and of course that breakfast date in Knocked Up where Katherine Heigl re-explains what she does for a living and Seth Rogen desperately asks for her number, especially that grimaced line, “we had fun … right?”
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Felicia had always been termed classically pretty.
Entice Me at Twilight Shayla Black 2010
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Rather, he is a politician that has consistently taken a series of what could be called classically conservative “Burkean” positions on key public policy issues.
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Felicia had always been termed classically pretty.
Entice Me at Twilight Shayla Black 2010
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Felicia had always been termed classically pretty.
Entice Me at Twilight Shayla Black 2010
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Felicia had always been termed classically pretty.
Entice Me at Twilight Shayla Black 2010
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Certainly he's not what you might call a classically trained Shakespearean actor.
Archive 2007-05-01 Victor Gischler 2007
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