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1841 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 8 7 Are you not ambitious of having your confusion of tongues classicized?

1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany xviii. 300 The original chateau..appears to have been classicized in the seventeenth century.

1896 Times 11 Feb. 12/3 If it be held that there is no educational salvation..without Latin or Greek, then by all means let us seriously set to work to classicize our schools.

1927 Music & Lett. 8 122 Even with the best artists there is always present a tendency to ‘classicize’ the sitters.

1975 S. Heaney in Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Nov. 750/3 A poetry in English that would adorn and classicize the native literature.

1993 J. S. A. Adamson in K. Sharpe & P. Lake Culture & Politics in Early Stuart Eng. vii. 175 The image of the chivalric knight has here been classicised.

1969 Language 45 418 People who are trying to 'classicize' will sometimes select..that form [sc. of Classical Arabic] which does not also appear in their native colloquial dialect.

2000 R. G. Witt In Footsteps of Ancients (2003) iv. 133 The first efforts to classicize in the second half of the thirteenth century were limited to poetry.

1847 Oxf. & Cambr. Rev. Mar. 254 S. Laurent has its chief entrance in the same style; S. Médard is more extensively classicized.

1873 St. Pauls Mag. Oct. 415 His Christianized classicism, or classicized Christianity, was the go-between..which made my mental history as nearly sane as it could be.

1922 J. M. Gibbon Pagan Love xxv. 272 This was not the classicised Cleopatra of the English stage, but the barbarian ostentation of a semi-African princess.

2003 N.Y. Mag. 5 May 57/2 White may have deftly adapted and reinvigorated classicized architecture, but Gehry exhibits an artistic originality of a higher order.