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A perfect and/or early example of a particular style.

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An artistic work of lasting worth, such as a film or song.

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The author of such a work.

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A major, long-standing sporting event

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One learned in the literature of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome; a student of classical literature.

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Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.

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Exemplary of a particular style; defining a class/category.

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Exhibiting timeless quality.

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Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.

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Traditional; original.

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I guess I wanted to ask you the classic question.

Isn't that a classic definition of good politician?

A car is a classic.

Anatole was sitting upright in the classic pose of military dandies, the lower part of his face hidden by his beaver collar and his head slightly bent.

It has passed through a far greater number of editions than any other work on natural history in the whole world, and has become emphatically an English classic - the graceful simplicity of its style, the elevating tone of its spirit, and the sympathetic chords it strikes recommending it to every lover of Nature, while the severely scientific reader can scarcely find an error in any statement it contains, whether of matter of fact or opinion.

Choose from specialty sandwiches (including vegetarian options), burgers and classic diner selections such as hot open-faced platters.

Check out the restaurant's classic offerings such as dim sum and dumplings, or branch out a bit with some airy pepper-salted squid.

Among the public buildings are the town hall, classic in style; the market house, and literary and scientific institution, with a museum containing a fossil collection from the limestone of the locality.

Relations came to his aid, and presently his anxieties were relieved by Francis Martin, bursar of Trinity, who gave him liberal help. Benson took his degree in 1852 as a senior optime, eighth classic and senior chancellor's medallist, and was elected fellow of Trinity in the following year.

Owing to the purity of its language and style it has remained a classic work.

The Rhine was the classic river of the middle ages; and probably the Tiber alone is of equal historical interest among European rivers.

The classic style, however, was generally adopted in the period succeeding his own.

It is probable that Burma is the Chryse Regio of Ptolemy, a name parallel in meaning to Sonaparanta, the classic Pali title assigned to the country round the capital in Burmese documents.

The Testimony of the King of Martyrs concerning His Kingdom (1729) is a classic repudiation of erastianism and defence of the spiritual autonomy of the church under Jesus Christ.

Palgrave made his adventurous journey through Nejd, and published the remarkable narrative which has taken itslace as the classic of Arabian P Nejd.

He ridicules the ambition of German writers to be classic, as Lessing had ridiculed their eagerness to be French.

He argues against the setting up of classic art as an unchanging type, valid for all peoples and all times.

On the other hand the development of classic culture is traced with a less skilful hand.

Belonging to about the same period as the JinkOshOtO-ki, another classic occupies a leading place in Japanese esteem.

At Eton he did no more work than was acceptable to him, but he had an inborn love of literature, and he laid the foundation of that knowledge of the classic languages which in after years was the delight of his life.

Polynesia, that classic land of mythology, is specially rich in myths of creation.

He now turned his attention to themes of classic legend, which at first he treated in a "Romantic spirit."

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

The colouring is that of classic mythology, but the spiritual element is as individual as that of any classical poem by Milton, Gray, Keats or Tennyson.

The great opposition which arose during his lifetime continued after his death, and found classic expression in the highly venerated confession of Petrus Mogilas, metropolitan of Kiev (1643).(1643).

That principle had been made use of by the Greek authors of the classic age; but of later mathematicians only Hero, Diophantus, &c., ventured to regard lines and surfaces as mere numbers that could be joined to give a new number, their sum.

Reference may also be made to the classic memoirs of Planchon, culminating.

A contemporary account of Herbert's life by Barnabas Oley was prefixed to the Remains of 1652, but the classic authority is Izaak Walton's Life of Mr George Herbert, published in 1670, with some letters from Herbert to his mother.

Scholars, guessing from isolated passages in classic writers, or arguing on general principles, had held that the "Indies" could be reached by sailing due west.

Of Goethe's classic "conceits" which it contains, the stone altar round which a serpent climbs to eat the votive bread upon it, inscribed to the "genius hujus loci," is the most famous.

In editing a father, or a classic, he had in view the practical utility of the general reader, not the accuracy required by the gild of scholars.

In the 5th and 6th centuries Egypt and Palestine had been the classic lands of monks and monasteries.

He won a Craven scholarship and graduated as senior classic in 1844, being also senior chancellor's medallist in classics.

The Soldiers', Sailors' and Pioneers' building (1907) is a beautiful structure, classic in design.

An increasing number of workers in this field of plant biology in England, on the Continent and in America has produced a great mass of observations, which have recently been brought together in Dr Paul Knuth's classic work, Handbook of Flower Pollination, an English translation of which has been published (1908) by the Clarendon Press.

For the form of the earlier ephod the classic passage is 2 Sam.

On the western hill are the law courts, a fine block of buildings in classic style surmounted by a central dome.

Within the city proper the Fitzroy Gardens are a network of avenues bordered with oak, elm and plane, with a " ferntree gully " in the centre; they are ornamented with casts of famous statues, and ponds, fountains and classic temples.

A classic but unfinished work describing the methods of invertebrate palaeontology is Die Stamme des Thierreichs (Vienna, 1889), by Melchior Neumayr.

His early mastery of classical literature led him to the study of classic monuments in classic lands, while his equally conspicuous talent for mathematics gave him the laws of form and proportion in architectural design.

Semper's style was a growth from the classic orders through the Italian Cinque Cento.

A selection of his letters has been adopted as a classic in the Italian schools.

The real Servian commentary practically gives the only complete extant edition of a classic author written before the destruction of the empire.

In 1832 he was 34th wrangler and 8th classic, and in 1834 was made fellow of Trinity.

The memoir of the last-named, published in the Journal de l'Ecole royale polytechnique for 1847 (xviii., 1 -270), ranks as a classic on the subject; it is replete with examples and illustrations, and discusses the various phenomena in minute detail.

As a synthetical agent in organic chemistry, aluminium chloride has rendered possible more reactions than any other substance; here we can only mention the classic syntheses of benzene homologues.

The aim of Laokoon, which ranks as a classic, not only in German but in European literature, is to define by analysis the limitations of poetry and the plastic arts.

By his original interpretation of Aristotle's theory of tragedy, he delivered German dramatists from the yoke of the classic tragedy of France, and directed them to the Greek dramatists and to Shakespeare.

Of public buildings the most noteworthy are St Paul's church (1730), of classic design; the municipal buildings; and the hospital for master mariners, maintained by the corporation of the Trinity House, which was founded at Deptford, the old hall being pulled down in 1787.

In 1587 he left Bologna for Pisa, and there, in his quality of professor, he made the curious mistake of printing Alberti's comedy Philodoxius as a work of the classic Lepidus.