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Artificial classificationArtificial Ar`ti*fi"cial, a. [L. artificialis, fr. artificium:
cf. F. artificiel. See Artifice.]
1. Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human
skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial
heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers.
Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier
than life. --Shak.
2. Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine.
``Artificial tears.' --Shak.
3. Artful; cunning; crafty. [Obs.] --Shak.
4. Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as,
artificial grasses. --Gibbon.
Artificial arguments (Rhet.), arguments invented by the
speaker, in distinction from laws, authorities, and the
like, which are called inartificial arguments or proofs.
--Johnson.
Artificial classification (Science), an arrangement based
on superficial characters, and not expressing the true
natural relations species; as, ``the artificial system'
in botany, which is the same as the Linn[ae]an system.
Artificial horizon. See under Horizon.
Artificial light, any light other than that which proceeds
from the heavenly bodies.
Artificial lines, lines on a sector or scale, so contrived
as to represent the logarithmic sines and tangents, which,
by the help of the line of numbers, solve, with tolerable
exactness, questions in trigonometry, navigation, etc.
Artificial numbers, logarithms.
Artificial person (Law). See under Person.
Artificial sines, tangents, etc., the same as logarithms
of the natural sines, tangents, etc. --Hutton. Artificial classificationClassification Clas`si*fi*ca"tion, n. [Cf. F. classification.]
The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution
into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to
some common relations or affinities.
Artificial classification. (Science) See under
Artifitial. Classible
Classible Class"i*ble, a.
Capable of being classed.
Classic
Classic Clas"sic, n.
1. A work of acknowledged excellence and authority, or its
author; -- originally used of Greek and Latin works or
authors, but now applied to authors and works of a like
character in any language.
In is once raised him to the rank of a legitimate
English classic. --Macaulay.
2. One learned in the literature of Greece and Rome, or a
student of classical literature.
Classical tripos examinationTripos Tri"pos, n.; pl. Triposes. [Gr. ? a tripod. See
Tripod.]
1. A tripod. [Obs.] --Dryden.
2. A university examination of questionists, for honors;
also, a tripos paper; one who prepares a tripos paper.
[Cambridge University, Eng.]
Classical tripos examination, the final university
examination for classical honors, optional to all who have
taken the mathematical honors. --C. A. Bristed.
Tripos paper, a printed list of the successful candidates
for mathematical honors, accompanied by a piece in Latin
verse. There are two of these, designed to commemorate the
two tripos days. The first contains the names of the
wranglers and senior optimes, and the second the names of
the junior optimes. The word tripos is supposed to refer
to the three-legged stool formerly used at the
examinations for these honors, though some derive it from
the three brackets formerly printed on the back of the
paper. --C. A. Bristed. Classicalism
Classicalism Clas"sic*al*ism, n.
1. A classical idiom, style, or expression; a classicism.
2. Adherence to what are supposed or assumed to be the
classical canons of art.
Classicalist
Classicalist Clas"sic*al*ist, n.
One who adheres to what he thinks the classical canons of
art. --Ruskin.
Classicality
Classicality Clas`si*cal"i*ty, Classicalness
Clas"sic*al*ness, n.
The quality of being classical.
Classically
Classically Clas"sic*al*ly, adv.
1. In a classical manner; according to the manner of
classical authors.
2. In the manner of classes; according to a regular order of
classes or sets.
Classicalness
Classicality Clas`si*cal"i*ty, Classicalness
Clas"sic*al*ness, n.
The quality of being classical.
Classicism
Classicism Clas"si*cism, n.
A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. --C. Kingsley.
Classicist
Classicist Clas"si*cist, n.
One learned in the classics; an advocate for the classics.
Classifiable
Classifiable Clas"si*fi`a*ble, a.
Capable of being classified.
Classific
Classific Clas*sif"ic, a.
Characterizing a class or classes; relating to
classification.
ClassificationClassification Clas`si*fi*ca"tion, n. [Cf. F. classification.]
The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution
into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to
some common relations or affinities.
Artificial classification. (Science) See under
Artifitial. Classificatory
Classificatory Clas"si*fi*ca`to*ry, a.
Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification.
``A classificatory system.' --Earle.
ClassifiedClassify Clas"si*fy, v. t. [imp. & pp. Classified; p. pr. &
vb. n. Classifying.] [L. classis class + ?]
To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system;
to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common
properties or characters.
Syn: To arrange; distibute; rank. Classifier
Classifier Clas"si*fi`er, n.
One who classifies.
ClassifyClassify Clas"si*fy, v. t. [imp. & pp. Classified; p. pr. &
vb. n. Classifying.] [L. classis class + ?]
To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system;
to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common
properties or characters.
Syn: To arrange; distibute; rank. ClassifyingClassify Clas"si*fy, v. t. [imp. & pp. Classified; p. pr. &
vb. n. Classifying.] [L. classis class + ?]
To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system;
to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common
properties or characters.
Syn: To arrange; distibute; rank. ClassingClass Class, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Classed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Classing.] [Cf. F. classer. See Class, n.]
1. To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class;
as, to class words or passages.
Note: In scientific arrangement, to classify is used instead
of to class. --Dana.
2. To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or
place in, a class or classes. ClassisClassis Clas"sis, n.; pl. Classes. [L. See Class, n.]
1. A class or order; sort; kind. [Obs.]
His opinion of that classis of men. --Clarendon.
2. (Eccl.) An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain
churches, as the Reformed Dutch. It is intermediate
between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to
the presbytery in the Presbyterian church. Neoclassic
Neoclassic Ne`o*clas"sic, a. [Neo- + classic.]
Belonging to, or designating, the modern revival of
classical, esp. Greco-Roman, taste and manner of work in
architecture, etc.
Neoclassic architecture
Neoclassic architecture Neoclassic architecture
All that architecture which, since the beginning of the
Italian Renaissance, about 1420, has been designed with
deliberate imitation of Greco-Roman buildings.
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