Class , v. i. To grouped or classed.
The genus or
famiky under which it classes.
Tatham.
Class (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Classed (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Classing.]
[Cf. F. classer. See Class, n.] 1. To arrange in
classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or
passages.
&fist; In
scientific arrangement, to classify is used instead of to
class. Dana.
2.
To divide into classes, as students; to form into,
or place in,
a class or
classes.
Class (kl&adot;s), n. [F. classe, fr. L. classis class, collection, fleet; akin to Gr. klh^sis a calling, kalei^n to call,
E. claim, haul.]
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. A comprehensive division of animate or inanimate objects, grouped together on account of their common characteristics,
in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders,
families, tribes, genera, etc.
4. A set;
a kind or description, species or variety.
She had lost one class energies.
Macaulay.
5. (Methodist Church)
One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader.
Class of a curve (Math.), the kind of a curve as
expressed by the number of tangents that can be drawn from any point to
the curve. A
circle is of the second
class. -- Class meeting (Methodist
Church), a meeting of a
class under the charge of
a class leader, for counsel and relegious instruction.
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