adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.]
1. In a classical manner; in classical style or after classical models.
1772–7. in Cowley, Country Life, N. 3 (R.). The poet, as usual, expresses his own feeling, but he does more, he expresses it very classically.
1815. Scribbleomania, 60. The language [is], in many instances, classically beautiful.
b. With classical scholarship or education.
1852. Hawthorne, Tanglew. T., Wayside (1879), 13. The classically learned Mr. Pringles.
1867. Seeley, in Macm. Mag., Nov., 79/1. If, then, the mind of the classically-educated boy who leaves school at sixteen is not imbued with good literature, on their own showing it is not educated.
† 2. As to class or order, in classes. Obs.
1790. Kerr, Lavoisier’s Chem., 61 (Webst.). It would be quite impossible to bear all its specifical details in the memory, if they were not classically arranged.
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., III. xxviii. 24. A difference that proved the Crustacea classically distinct from Insecta.
† 3. Eccles. By a classis or presbytery. Obs.
1680. Answ. Stillingfleet’s Serm., 27. A Minister … ordained (and so Episcopally or Classically approved in his abilities for that function).
