combining form of L. classic-us CLASSIC, as in Classico-Lombardic adj.; Classicolatry, nonce-wd., worship of the classics.
1879. Sir G. Scott, Lect. Archit., I. 142. Italy received her Pointed architecture from France and Germany, and mingled it freely with her Classico-Lombardic traditions.
1881. Jrnl. Educ., 1 March, 49/1. Before Modern Schools were dreamed of, he [Carlyle] inveighed against monkish Classicolatry.
Classics, sb. pl.: see CLASSIC sb.
