classicize

English

Alternative forms

• classicise

Etymology

From classic +‎ -ize.

Verb

classicize (third-person singular simple present classicizes, present participle classicizing, simple past and past participle classicized)

1. To make classic.
   • 2002, R. Anderson Sutton, Calling Back the Spirit: Music, Dance, and Cultural Politics in Lowland South Sulawesi‎^[1], Oxford University Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 83:

     Another approach is exemplified by the performance group known as Mahligai […] which drew on traditional forms in an attempt to classicize them.

2. To conform to the classic style.
   • 1974 January 20, Paul Goldberger, “Mies Art Pavilion Opens In Houston”, in Eugene Register-Guard‎^[2]:

     Mies' style, for all of its obvious modernity, is essentially rather classicizing […]

Derived terms

• classicization