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classify, v.|ˈklæsɪfaɪ|
[A modern word, f. L. class-is class, as if ad. L. *classificāre: see -fy, and cf. mod.F. classifier, in Littré as a neologism.]
trans. To arrange or distribute in classes according to a method or system.
1799W. Tooke Russ. Empire I. 531 (Webst.) The diseases and casualties are not scientifically classified. 1805W. Saunders Min. Waters 97 If we are not anxious to classify with too much minuteness. 1807Southey Espriella's Lett. (1814) III. 120 Swedenborg had learnt to classify in his earthly studies. 1818in Todd. 1824Blackw. Mag. XVI. 620 Another class of transgressions..we shall now enumerate: ‘to compete’—(an American discovery,)—‘to classify’—(a barbarism which we are sorry to see, in the leading article of the last North American Review, No. 44. p. 42)..This comes of inventing new words ‘for short’;—‘to classify’ is a charming abbreviation of ‘to class’; as ‘lengthy’ is of ‘length’. 1872Morley Voltaire (1886) 98 To classify a type of character as good or bad. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 31 Long ago they [actions] have been classified sufficiently for all practical purposes.
Hence ˈclassifying, vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1858Buckle Civiliz. II. 515 (L.) A singular precision of the classifying power, which he possessed as a native talent. |