classic's Usage Examples:

A woman who cherishes classical romance may prefer a more romantic proposal, and trying to force a surprise for this important question can have unexpected and unwanted results when the answer is a surprise as well.

Here no such ology and revolution has been effected as that which virtually classical created anew the history of Oriental antiquity; yet history.

Among these, besides the classical and the modern European languages, were included Persian, Arabic, Hindustani, Sanskrit and even Malay.

While nylon, spandex and various forms of polyester have allowed for a lot of variety in bra styles and patterns as well as levels of support and performance, a lot of women not only prefer the classic cotton, but need it.

The classics, " as low as Tacitus, Pliny the Younger and Juvenal," had been long familiar.

Thus while among his own colleagues he seemed merely a hypocritical and arrogant priest, in his relations with his brother humanists, such as Cosimo de Medici, he appeared as the student of classical antiquities and especially of Greek theological authors.

Topping every kid or kid-at-heart's June DVD release list is Dumbo, the Disney animated classic from 1941.

Here he presents five classical ragas that really document his mastery of this ancient Indian instrument.

It is said that Rabelais met and quarrelled with Joachim du Bellay the poet at Rome, and with Ronsard at Meudon and elsewhere, that this caused a breach between him and the Pleiade, that he satirized its classicizing tendencies in the episode of the Limousin scholar, and that Ronsard after his death avenged himself by a libellous epitaph.

Here, while imbibing the somewhat mystical piety of the house, he had an excellent chance of carrying on his beloved classical studies; indeed, at one time he proposed to couple sacred and profane together, and go on a missionary journey to the Levant.

The new humanism was a kind of revival of the Renaissance, which had been retarded by the Reformation in Germany and by the Counter-Reformation in Italy, or had at least been degraded to the dull classicism of the schools.

It was their professed object to raise French to a level with the classics, and to acclimatize Italian species of verse.

After this the main effort of his life was to realize visions of beauty suggested by classic myth and history.

Synonyms:

definitive, classical, authoritative, standard,

Antonyms:

artifact, inactivity, natural object, classicist, nonstandard,