classicize

[ klas-uh-sahyz ]

verb (used with object)

, clas·si·cized, clas·si·ciz·ing.

1. to make classic.

verb (used without object)

, clas·si·cized, clas·si·ciz·ing.

1. to conform to the classic style.

classicize

/ ˈklæsɪˌsaɪz /

verb

1. tr to make classic
2. intr to imitate classical style

Word History and Origins

Origin of classicize¹

First recorded in 1850–55; classic + -ize

Example Sentences

The cartoonish face on a classicized statue jump-starts the statue with an incongruity that magnetizes passers-by.

From New York Times

That embedment can take place through the weight of the stainless steel or the careful soldering of the aluminum, or the classicized majesty he brings to his subjects.

From New York Times

From one perspective she may just be a classicized pinup model, but consider also the four mascarons at bottom that frame the tumbling nude.

From New York Times

The artist proves himself no less adept at the characteristic motion of a very different kind of theater, the stately, self-possessed, classicizing motion of the opera house.

From Washington Post

But what the classicized statue implies is that certain ideals, notably liberty and justice for all, endure beyond any individual presidential biography, and those ideals are not invalidated when our leaders flout them.

From New York Times