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- that is in accorance with the prescriptions of, taught by or agreeable to the scriptures; conformable to the sacred texts.
- characteristic of or derived from the literary and artistic standards, principles, and methods that are ancient and time-tested; classical.
- designating or of a specified area or course of study that is or has been standard and traditionally authoritative, not new, recent, and experimental; classical.
- of, characteristic of or like a style of music characterised by an emphasis on formal composition and performance; classical.
- of or having a style that is balanced, formal, objective, restrained, regular, simple, etc.: [a term variously interpreted, generally opposed to romantic or subsequent movements].
- based on, using or in accordance with, the principles and methods of science; systematic and exact; scientific.
- designating the method of research in which a hypothesis, formulated after systematic, objective collection of data, is tested empirically; scientific.
- done according to methods gained by systematic training; scientific.