classicist
noun
clas·si·cist
ˈkla-sə-sist 
1
: an advocate or follower of classicism
2
: a classical scholar
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In the late eighteen-nineties, when the New Croton Aqueduct was just beginning to pipe water into the Bronx from Westchester, James Reuel Smith, a wealthy classicist with a passion for cataloguing, used a bicycle to survey the springs and wells of Manhattan and the Bronx.
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Robert Sullivan, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
But there’s still something delectable about Guillermo del Toro, a director who is both a visionary and a genre classicist, returning to the original horror novel, the tale of monsters and madmen that gave birth to all subsequent tales of monsters and madmen.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2025
The latest example came last week with Google DeepMind unveiling an AI system called Aeneas that can pinpoint the date of Latin inscriptions—a boon to classicists and historians.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 29 July 2025
The classicist also stressed that Roman cooking was highly resourceful and, unlike American fast food today, urban vendors served most parts of the animal.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 23 June 2025
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Robert Sullivan, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
But there’s still something delectable about Guillermo del Toro, a director who is both a visionary and a genre classicist, returning to the original horror novel, the tale of monsters and madmen that gave birth to all subsequent tales of monsters and madmen.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2025
The latest example came last week with Google DeepMind unveiling an AI system called Aeneas that can pinpoint the date of Latin inscriptions—a boon to classicists and historians.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 29 July 2025
The classicist also stressed that Roman cooking was highly resourceful and, unlike American fast food today, urban vendors served most parts of the animal.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 23 June 2025
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“Classicist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/classicist. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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