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‖ classis|ˈklæsɪs|
Pl. classes.
[16th c. a. L. classis a class or division of the Roman people.]
1. A division of the Roman people according to property and taxation.
1601Holland Pliny II. 462 The best man in all Rome was valewed to be worth in goods not aboue 110000 Asses in brasse..and this was counted the first Classis.
†2.
a. A division according to rank; a class.
1594Bp. King Jonas (1618) 388 They runne through all the classies and rankes of vanitie. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. viii. 33 In the same classis, may well be placed Vincentius Belluacensis. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 36 Animals that come nearest the classis of Plants. 1704Swift T. Tub i. (1750) 27 It is under this classis I have presumed to list my present treatise. 1714Fr. Bk. Rates 394 The Commissary or Clark of each Classis of that Division.
b. In U.S., formerly used for a class in college or school.
1643New Eng. First Fruits 14 That they studiously..observe..the speciall houres for their owne Classis. Ibid. 16 The Students of the first Classis. 1673Harvard College Rec. (1925) I. 56 Mr. Daniell Gookin..is forthwith to take upon him the charge of a classis. 1723Ibid. 483 After his taking the Care of the Classis to the End of this Year. 1851in B. H. Hall College Words 49.
3. a. In certain Presbyterian churches; an inferior judicatory consisting of the elders or pastors of the parishes or churches of a district; a presbytery. Used in England under the Commonwealth; and subsequently in certain Reformed churches of the continent, and America.
1593R. Bancroft Dangerous Positions iii. 13 (T.) Assemblies are either classes or synods: classes are conferences of the fewest ministers of churches, standing near together, as for example of twelve. 1646Ord. Lords & Com., Sacram. 8 Scandalous sinnes..shall be certified to any Classis, either from any Congregationall Eldership, or otherwise. 1663Butler Hud. i. i. 838 Bearbaiting may be..as lawful as is Provincial and Parochial Classis. a1679T. Goodwin Wks. IV. 114 (R.) The reformed churches, in France, call it a presbytery; and the meeting of the elders over many congregations, that they call the classis. 1761Hume Hist. Eng. III. liii. 138 note, A presbytery in Scotland is an inferior Ecclesiastical Court, the same that was afterwards called a classis in England. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 273 The Dutch Reformed churches..six classes, which form one synod. Each classis delegates two ministers and an elder to represent them in synod.
b. The district formed by the parishes so united.
1653G. Firmin Sober Reply 7 Our Classis runnes 14 miles in length, and 20 severall Parishes in it. 1761–2Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) IV. lviii. 399 A number of neighbouring parishes, commonly between twelve and twenty, formed a classis.
†4. In a library: A name originally equivalent to ‘stall’, i.e. a case of book-shelves standing out at right angles to the wall; afterwards applied to the compartment formed by the shelves in the adjacent sides of two ‘stalls’, together with those under the window between them. Obs.
1625B. Jonson Staple of N. i. ii. (1631) 9 The great roomes He has taken for the Office, and set vp His Deskes and Classes, Tables and his Shelues. 1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. iii. 230 Cornelius à Lapide..whose volumes..take up halfe a Classis in our publique Libraries. 1710Hearne Collect. (Oxf. H.S.) III. 96 Putting Books in Shelves under the Classes of the Middle Part of the Publick Library. 1886R. Willis Archit. Hist. Univ. Camb. III. 438.
5. attrib.
1715Lond. Gaz. No. 5384/2 Lost..ten Orders of the Classis Lottery 1712. |