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Meanings of classicist in English

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classicista

An artistic person who adheres to classicism.

        classicista

        A student of ancient Greek and Latin.

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              Examples for "classical scholar"
              Examples for "classical scholar"
              1
              So a local school superintendent, a classical scholar, suggested a name change.
              Turn left at the trojan horse: a would-be hero's american odysse...
              2
              He is a classical scholar, who writes easily in Latin and Greek.
              A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
              3
              Though never a critical classical scholar, he could read Latin with ease.
              The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 / A Maga...
              4
              Then came a period of study, and he became an excellent classical scholar.
              The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction
              5
              By the way, Mac, I am a classical scholar, not an arithmetical one.
              Major Barbara
              Usage of classicist in English
              1
              There was this lusty young classicist, he swept me off my feet.
              Children of Time
              2
              Throughout, Carson disregards convention in a way that only a demob-happy classicist could.
              The Guardian
              3
              Yes, decidedly, he was no classicist in music; he was a thoroughgoing transcendentalist.
              Crome Yellow
              4
              Find the classicist, the aristocrat, the Englishman, and the lover in that quatrain!
              A Study of Poetry
              5
              It was as if he were mimicking Federer, the ultimate classicist.
              The Guardian
              6
              And Miller while a radical in many things is a classicist as to Finance.
              The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political
              7
              The damehood awarded to the classicist Mary Beard is likely to prove more popular.
              The Guardian
              8
              Rent, the share of the land-owner, offered to the classicist a rather peculiar case.
              The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice
              9
              Thomas, 27, was a classicist and has become a solicitor.
              The Guardian
              10
              As classicist Mary Beard and historian Keith Hopkins assert in their new book about it.
              The Irish Times
              11
              They put him down as a "classicist," or a romanticist, or an eclectic.
              Essays Before a Sonata
              12
              I'm not a modernist and I'm not a classicist.
              The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians
              13
              The classicist scowled, waved off the man's concern.
              Children of Time
              14
              He was vilified in 2012 for being rude about classicist Mary Beard and her television show.
              The Guardian
              15
              They spoke about him being a classicist, lawyers&translator.
              The new yorker
              16
              Louis Ehlert, a romantic in feeling and a classicist in theory, is the writer of the foregoing.
              Chopin : the Man and His Music
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