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单词 classific
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classificadj.

Brit. /kləˈsɪfɪk/, U.S. /kləˈsɪfɪk/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin classis , -fic suffix.
Etymology: < classical Latin classis class n. + -fic suffix, probably after classification n., classify v. Compare earlier classifying adj. and later classificatory adj.
Now rare.
Relating to classification; constituting or distinguishing a class or classes; classificatory.
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1799 J. Anderson Recreations in Agric. I. (Nat.-hist.) 31 Our knowledge of nature, however, would be extremely imperfect, were we to confine ourselves to the three divisions which the inventors of the classific system have determined to be the region of natural-history.
1818 S. T. Coleridge Friend III. i. v. 166 Linnæus..adopting from Bartholinus and others the sexuality of plants, grounded thereon a scheme of classific and distinctive marks.
1859 R. Owen Classif. & Geogr. Distribution Mammalia 4 Science..had brought to light..viviparous quadrupeds which differ in structures of classific importance from the Zootoka tetrapoda of Aristotle.
1900 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 30 45 The proposed term carries no implication of classific relation, raises no mooted question concerning the origin or distribution of races.
1928 E. W. Berry in F. B. Mason Creation by Evol. 162 Another later Devonian type, widespread geographically, is a plant (Archaeopteris) whose classific place is uncertain, for we cannot yet be sure whether it is a true fern or a seed fern.
1997 L. R. Brown Emerson Museum ii. 100 The Muséum's treasures, its classific ‘types’ or specimens, could only be ‘rich and rare’ by virtue of their places in a larger scheme of valuation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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