classicallyadv.

1646 J. Bastwick Utter Routing of Army of Independents 259 All those Churches I say were Classically governed, and were all dependent upon their severall Presbyters, as being subordinate to them.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. xvi. 211 Stone his discovery marr'd for the future all their formal meetings, as Classically, or Synodically methodized.

1680 Answer Stillingfleet's Serm. 27 A Minister..ordained (and so Episcopally or Classically approved in his abilities for that function).

1721 J. Chamberlayne tr. G. Brandt Hist. Reformation II. xxv. 250 The said Ministers, should be..required to meet classically.

1753 J. Besse Coll. Sufferings of Quakers I. xxiv. 432 I was never in orders, neither Episciopally, nor Classically.

1646 J. Mayne Serm. Unity 43 There is not any Ancient, Classically condemned Heresie..which is not by some clause or other in that most Orthodox Book excluded.

1671 J. Eachard Some Observ. Answer to Grounds Contempt of Clergy 48 If you want a Bit of ancient Authority, to plant Classically upon the Title-Page of your Book [etc.].

1783 J. C. Lettsom Some Acct. Late John Fothergill p. ixii With a modesty characteristic of true greatness of mind,..when speaking of his deceased Fothergill, he classically enjoins me ‘..when my name is to be introduced, let me appear only as an attendant satellite.’

1840 Lit. Gaz. 7 Nov. 719/1 That down-cast expression of visage and unobtrusive demeanour which have been classically said to remind one of a dog that has burnt his tail.

1880 T. Hardy Trumpet-major I. viii. 135 When Festus put on the big pot, as it is classically called, he was quite blinded ipso facto to the diverting effect of that mood and manner upon others.

1921 H. J. Laski Found. of Sovereignty 220 The sovereignty of the King in Parliament..has been given classically emphatic expression in Burke's insistence that the private member ideally represents the nation as a whole.

1966 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 198 1108 The physician's assistant will be able to draw blood..and do other procedures classically performed by the doctor.

1994 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) June 156/2 This is a classically Clintonesque defense: true in most respects, but deliberately misleading in certain particulars.

2003 Sci. Amer. Oct. 25/2 As..Dylan Thomas classically admonished, ‘Do not go gentle into that good night,..Rage, rage against the dying of the light.’

a1655 N. L'Estrange in W. J. Thoms Anecd. & Trad. (1839) i. 8 He carryed them into his study and shew [sic] them all the Fathers classically ordered.

1670 S. Gott Divine Hist. Genesis World x. 310 All Elements and Elementary things are Classicaly below Vegetatives.

1698 J. Turner Phisico-theological Disc. upon Divine Being 215 Not only the Intellectual Spirit, and the duly organized Matter, remain even in their Consociation classically different.

1723 P. Blair Pharmaco-botanologia i. 1 Treatise of Dispensatory Plants, Alphabetically and Classically disposed.

1790 R. Kerr tr. A. Lavoisier Elements Chem. i. v. 61 It would be impossible to bear all its specific details in the memory, if they were not classically arranged.

1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxviii. 24 A difference that proved the Crustacea classically distinct from Insecta.

1753 J. Warton Adventurer No. 59. 353 To be ruined by pursuing the precepts of Virgilian agriculture, and by plowing classically.

1772 in A. Cowley Select Wks. II. 176 The poet, as usual, expresses his own feeling; but he does more, he expresses it very classically.

1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 60 The language [is], in many instances, classically beautiful.

1869 A. Trollope Phineas Finn II. xl. 23 Her nose was not classically beautiful, being broader at the nostrils than beauty required, and, moreover, not perfectly straight in its line.

1917 W. Churchill Dwelling-place of Light xxi. 442 The classically porched entrance was approached by a path.

1967 Art Bull. 48 43 It was undoubtedly this dynamic quality of the back view that led Cézanne to prefer it to the classically contained front view.

2007 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 24 Mar. Ruggero Raimondi is a dignified, almost classically restrained Philip.

1836 Times 23 Sept. 3/6 The Hebrew Morning Hymn, which has all the characteristics of the old school, with the addenda of modern instruments, happily and classically employed.

1872 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 142/2 Among so much that is disquieting to a classically trained ear there is occasionally found an extraordinarily beautiful aria.

1882 E. Cowdery tr. L. Ramann Franz Liszt II. xii. 11 They were played ‘classically’, that is to say, in strict time, flowing, smooth, with passionless accentuation, and an amiable expression of feeling.

1920 School Music Jan. 28/1 The classically trained musicians who function as instructors in our conservatories and universities.

1959 Times 26 Aug. 11/3 A classically trained ballet company.

1984 A. Copland & V. Perlis Copland: 1900–42 iv. 73 Their dry sonorities and classically oriented tunes lacked surface charm.

2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 21 May ii. 16/4 That year at the Paris Opera Ballet School explains much about Mr. Hallberg's precise, classically pure style.

1926 Proc. Physical Soc. 39 175 Any quantity x(n,t) which is a function of n and t can be expressed classically by the Fourier expansions [etc.].

1939 J. W. T. Spinks tr. G. Herzberg Molecular Spectra & Molecular Struct. I. i. 18 While classically the precession could take place at any angle to the field direction, according to quantum theory, only those angles are possible for which [etc.].

1962 Rep. Progress Physics 25 445 The predicted lack of recoil is trivial, since there is no recoil classically.

2008 New Scientist 28 June 10/3 We largely experience the world classically. In other words, Newtonian physical laws hold sway over our everyday lives rather than weird quantum effects.