Unclassical

a. (UN-¹ 7.)

1725.  Blackwall, Sacr. Class. (1727), I. 76. That it [sc. the repetition] is not unclassical but pure, I shall shew by parallel forms of expression in the noblest classics.

1767.  S. Paterson, Another Trav., I. 350. They are either too classical (You are unclassical) or too illiterate.

c. 1828.  Arnold, in Stanley, Life & Corr. (1844), I. 50. If the sermons are read, I do not care one farthing if the readers think me the most unclassical writer in the English language.

1871.  Blackie, Four Phases, i. 11. The Athenian philosophier made a jest of his unclassical nose.

  Hence Unclassically adv.

[1775.  Ash.]

1860.  J. Whiteside, Italy, xvii. 168. As we reach the unclassically-named town of Poggibonsi.