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MASTERPIECES |
Classics |
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SIC |
Part of the classics as originally penned |
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HONOR |
Academic or university prizes or distinctions; as, honors in
classics. |
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CLASSICIST |
One learned in the classics; an advocate for the
classics. |
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DOUBLE FIRST |
A degree of the first class both in classics and
mathematics. |
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HUMANITY |
The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language,
rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters. |
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EXCEL |
To surpass others in good qualities, laudable actions, or
acquirements; to be distinguished by superiority; as, to excel in
mathematics, or classics. |
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OBELUS |
A mark [thus /, or Ö ]; -- so called as resembling a
needle. In old MSS. or editions of the classics, it marks suspected
passages or readings. |
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DELPHINE |
Pertaining to the dauphin of France; as, the Delphin
classics, an edition of the Latin classics, prepared in the reign of
Louis XIV., for the use of the dauphin (in usum Delphini). |
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ELZEVIR |
Applied to books or editions (esp. of the Greek New
Testament and the classics) printed and published by the Elzevir family
at Amsterdam, Leyde... |
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ALDINE |
An epithet applied to editions (chiefly of the classics)
which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of
Venice, for the m... |