(n.) Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
(n.) Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, esp. 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.
(n.) Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined; as, a classical style.
Example Sentences:
(1) HSV I infection of the hand classically occurs in children with herpetic stomatitis and in health care workers infected during patient care delivery.
(2) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
(3) Classical treatment combining artificial delivery or uterine manual evacuation-oxytocics led to the arrest of bleeding in 73 cases.
(4) These experiments indicated that there were significant differences between the early classical C system of mice and those of human and guinea pig.
(5) The simultaneous administration of the yellow fever vaccine did not influence the titre of agglutinins induced by the classic cholera vaccine.
(6) N-Methoxysulphonamides showed no inhibitory activity, as predicted by the classic work of Krebs on N-substituted inhibitors.
(7) The interactions of 3 classical alpha-adrenergic antihypertensives of prevalently central type (St 155 or clonidine St 600; BR 750 or guanabenz) with the narcotic effects of pentobarbital have been investigated in the Mus musculus.
(8) The mother in Arthur Ransome's children's classic, Swallows and Amazons, is something of a cipher, but her inability to make basic decisions does mean she receives one of the finest telegrams in all literature.
(9) We have characterized the binding of the selective muscarinic antagonist [3H]pirenzepine ([3H])PZ) and the classical muscarinic antagonist (-)-[3H]quinuclidinyl benzilate ((-)-[3H]QNB) to muscarinic cholinergic sites in rabbit peripheral lung membranes.
(10) Fish were trained monocularly via the compressed or the normal visual field using an aversive classical conditioning model.
(11) Some of what I was churned up about seemed only to do with me, and some of it was timeless, a classic midlife shock and recalibration.
(12) Usually they are characterized by an increased level of complement components involved in the classical pathway and therefore reflect activation by antigen antibody complexes.
(13) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
(14) Classically, parathormone is known to increase bony reabsorption and raise serum calcium.
(15) Twelve mutations were searched for using classical techniques of molecular biology in a total of 126 patients.
(16) Here we compare this revised technique to the classical sucrose density centrifugation procedure.
(17) This study demonstrates that a second classical neurotransmitter, dopamine, can act to suppress regenerative neurite outgrowth.
(18) Classic technics of digital image analysis and new algorithms were used to improve the contrast on the full image or a portion of it, contrast a skin lesion with statistical information deduced from another lesion, evaluate the shape of the lesion, the roughness of the surface, and the transition region from the lesion to the normal skin, and analyze a lesion from the chromatic point of view.
(19) One cytotechnologist screened the slides for all occurrences of a standard set of classic cytopathologic signs.
(20) Detection of the noncarboxylated forms allows an indirect and specific measure of the vitamin K deficiency found in early, classic, and late hemorrhagic disease of the newborn (HDN), malabsorption syndromes, and drug related (warfarin, anticonvulsants, and antibiotics) states.
Classicist
Definition:
(n.) One learned in the classics; an advocate for the classics.
Example Sentences:
(1) Charles Leadbeater, a former policy adviser to the Labour government, recently advocated a prize in the classicist's name to recognise those who tackled such online misogyny.
(2) One such is Professor Mary Beard, the Cambridge classicist.
(3) Arguing that the culture of the web itself is the problem, Leadbeater says in his report that "the kind of abuse [suffered by] the classicist Mary Beard, the gymnast Beth Tweddle and campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez, would not be tolerated in a public place and there is no reason why it should be online".
(4) We can still benefit from the insight, prescriptions and procedures of the classicists, who in some respects offer more powerful methods of control than the most recently published works.
(5) Greek myths have a universal appeal: we half-remember them, and want to hear them again (though it can't have hurt to have a classicist on the Orange prize judging panel).
(6) Even so, while the prince seemed keen to shake hands and make up with the RIBA, going so far as to use the newly fashionable word sorry – as in "I am sorry if [in 1984] I somehow left the faintest impression that I wished to kick-start some kind of style war between classicists and modernists" – he also managed to take a swipe at Richard Rogers, who has clashed with the prince over the design of the new development of flats on the former Chelsea Barracks sites near Sir Christopher Wren's stately Royal Hospital.
(7) The judging panel, chaired by nature writer Robert Macfarlane, is made up of the broadcaster Martha Kearney, the critic and biographer Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, the classicist and critic Natalie Haynes and the author and critic Stuart Kelly.
(8) His favourite beat is the impressionists and Van Gogh, where he sends the ditherers: all assistants have their preferences, he says (Poussin and the French classicists being the least popular).
(9) One 18th-century classicist is even said to have planned to write a scholarly edition of the best-known joke book of that period, Joe Miller's Jests , in order to show that every single joke in it was descended from the ancient Laughter Lover .
(10) It's always, of course, been humanly impossible to "know" Eng lit (there are 17m works in the British Library alone) in the way that classicists, for instance, can know their classical literature, whose surviving texts can be fitted on to one CD.
(11) In 1961, he had a brief affair with Christine Keeler , variously described as a topless showgirl or (by high-minded classicists) a hetaera .
(12) A grand vista down the middle of the gallery leads from the brilliant Renaissance painter Luca Signorelli to the eerie fin-de-siècle classicist Puvis de Chavannes.
(13) Dimitri Nakassis, classicist challenging long-held assumptions about modes of economic exchange and political authority in prehistoric Greek societies and revealing their connections to the origins of modern civilization.
(14) Slowly and humbly, admittedly, but upwards just the same.” Praising Adam Faith was never going to win you kudos from rock classicists, but Cohn wasn’t afraid of appearing uncool, or even plain wrong.
(15) In an article for the Times Literary Supplement , the celebrated classicist Mary Beard told the students: “The battle isn’t won by taking the statue away and pretending those people didn’t exist.
(16) The other judges this year are the BBC broadcaster Martha Kearney, the classicist and critic Natalie Haynes, and the former literary editor of Scotland on Sunday Stuart Kelly.
(17) The major debates in political economy in the university were raging between neo-classicists and followers of Keynes.
(18) Presumably part of the fun for Powell (who was a better classicist than politician) was that he knew exactly how ancient the joke was.
(19) Local residents had asked Quinlan and Francis Terry , father and son classicists and favourites of Charles, to offer an alternative to the Rogers proposal, but they had found it equally difficult to cram so many homes on to the site.
(20) Other judges this year are the broadcaster Martha Kearney, the critic and biographer Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, the classicist and critic Natalie Haynes and the essayist and former literary editor of Scotland on Sunday Stuart Kelly.