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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Class

Clăss, n.

noun

(6), n. [Fr. & It. classe, Sp. clase, Lat. classis, class, collection, fleet, from Gr. κλάσις, κλῆσις, the people as assembled or called together, from καλεῖν, to call.]

  1. A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.
  2. A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.
  3. An order or division of animate or inanimate objects, grouped together on account of their common characteristics, being the highest in any classification or arrangement in natural science, and subdivided into orders, tribes, families, and genera.

Clăss, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. CLASSED (klăst); p. pr. & vb. n. CLASSING.] [Fr. classer. See supra.] 1. To form into a class; to arrange in classes; to rank together; to classify or refer to some class or group in classification; as, to class scholars; to class words or passages. In scientific arrangement, to classify is used instead of to class. Dana. 2. To place in ranks or divisions, as students that are pursuing the same studies; to form into a class or classes.

Cläss, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. To be grouped or classed. “Family under which it classes.” Tatham.