classicize
verbEtymology From classic + -ize.
1
To make classic.
- Another approach is exemplified by the performance group known as Mahligai […] which drew on traditional forms in an attempt to classicize them.2002, R. Anderson Sutton, Calling Back the Spirit: Music, Dance, and Cultural Politics in Lowland South Sulawesi, Oxford University Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 83:
2
To conform to the classic style.
- Mies' style, for all of its obvious modernity, is essentially rather classicizing […]1974 January 20, Paul Goldberger, “Mies Art Pavilion Opens In Houston”, in Eugene Register-Guard:
- Derived terms
- classicization