classicalist
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]classicalist (plural classicalists)
- Synonym of classicist
- 1851, John Ruskin, “The Quarry”, in The Stones of Venice, volume I (The Foundations), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § XXXIX, page 25:
- I shall not devote a fourth section to [Andrea] Palladio, nor weary the reader with successive chapters of vituperation; but I shall, in my account of the earlier architecture, compare the forms of all its leading features with those into which they were corrupted by the Classicalists; […]
References
[edit]- “classicalist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.