(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.
Latin
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or composed in, the language used by the Romans or Latins; as, a Latin grammar; a Latin composition or idiom.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Latium; a Roman.
(n.) The language of the ancient Romans.
(n.) An exercise in schools, consisting in turning English into Latin.
(n.) A member of the Roman Catholic Church.
(v. t.) To write or speak in Latin; to turn or render into Latin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Former Regional director for Latin American Caribbean and Middle East, Save the Children.
(2) Latin America has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world – 95% of abortions carried out there are performed in unsafe conditions.
(3) In an anthropologic study of illness referral among Latin-American immigrants three phases were ascertained: First, there was extended use of self-treatment.
(4) The 128 children arrived from one of eight countries in Asia or Latin America at ages ranging from 1 month to 10 years; 57% were female.
(5) Massive protests in the 1990s by Indian, Latin American and south-east Asian peasant farmers, indigenous groups and their supporters put the companies on the back foot, and they were reluctantly forced to shelve the technology after the UN called for a de-facto moratorium in 2000.
(6) In most developing countries abortion is illegal, and scrutiny of hospital records on complication (a 49% rate in a study in Latin America and 46% hospitalization) is a source.
(7) We propose to name these regulatory peptides 'deprimerones' (from Latin 'deprimere') and describe various fractions of them as chromatin deprimerones, messenger deprimerones, gene deprimerones (for specific genes).
(8) We conducted a cross-sectional survey simultaneously in six Latin American nations among people living near a river known to be polluted in each country.
(9) Other onlookers shivered, recalling Iglesias’s praise for Venezuela’s late president Hugo Chávez and fearing an eruption of Latin American-style populism in a country gripped by debt, austerity and unemployment.
(10) Löw’s side became the first from Europe to claim the trophy on Latin American soil courtesy of Götze’s fine 113th-minute finish from André Schürrle’s delivery.
(11) The following three corresponding arguments are put forward in support of the upgraded placebo-concept of "aura curae" (Latin: "air of care"; "unspecific healing context").
(12) This list gives the Latin first names of all 115 cardinals.
(13) Fifty per cent of the U.S. students with diarrhea had "severe" illness (greater than or equal to 10 unformed stools in first 48 hours) compared to 23% of the Latin Americans.
(14) The methodology of the first comprehensive multicenter study into risk factors of non-communicable chronic diseases carried out in Latin America is explained.
(15) Four to six groups of 4 x 4 Latin squares were used to estimate 80%, 100% and 120% standard preparations and the recovery rates were 95-106%.
(16) His eclectic approach to songwriting means he may not produce music that is typically Bahian or even Brazilian, but alongside the likes of Argentina's Juana Molina and Colombia's Bomba Estereo , he's redefining 21st-century Latin music.
(17) Most cephalometric analysis published to date are based on studies performed by orthodontists, focused on individuals in the growth and development stages, and based mainly on individuals with morphogenetic patterns different from those of the Latin prototype.
(18) Effects of dietary fat on milk composition, particularly milk N, were evaluated using 12 lactating Holstein cows in a replicated 4 X 4 Latin-square design.
(19) Further studies are needed to know whether these results could be extrapolated to studies on past diet and to non-Latin populations.
(20) Blacks made up 46% of the population; non-Latin whites, 40.1%; and Latin-Americans, 13.9%.