v. [f. CLASSIC + -IZE.] a. trans. To make classic. b. intr. To affect or imitate classic style or form.
Hence Classicizing vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1854. Chamb. Jrnl., I. 124. She looked like a Greek statue that had come alive, and by mere contact classicised its modern dress.
1859. Jephson, Brittany, xviii. 300. The original château … appears to have been classicized in the seventeenth century.
1884. Seeley, in Contemp. Rev., Oct., 502. The partial failure of his classicising experiments.
1887. Saintsbury, Elizab. Lit., i. 23. The translation mania and the classicising mania together led to the production of perhaps the most absurd book in all literature [Stanyhurst’s Æneid].
