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Webster 1913 Edition
Classic
Clas′sic
,Noun.
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.