classisn.

Brit.

/ˈklasɪs/, U.S.

/ˈklæsəs/

Inflections: Plural classes.

Forms: 1500s classies (plural), 1500s– classis.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin classis.

Etymology: < classical Latin classis class n. Compare earlier class n.Plural examples of this word are often difficult to distinguish from plural examples of class n.

1. Christian Church.

a. In the Presbyterian system: an ecclesiastical court or assembly above the consistory and below the synod consisting of the elders or pastors from each parish or congregation within a given area. Formerly also occasionally: †a parochial court, a consistory (obsolete). Cf. class n. 12a, presbytery n. 2a.Used in England (esp. in the 17th cent.) and the United States, but rarely in Scotland or with reference to the Church of Scotland or Presbyterian Churches deriving from it; presbytery is the normal term in those Churches. In recent use commonly used with reference to Reformed Churches in continental Europe, esp. the Netherlands.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > presbyterian > [noun] > presbytery

eldership1557

seniory1572

presbytery1581

classis1591

consistorya1593

class1644

colloquya1672

colloque1846

elderhood1860

1591 M. Sutcliffe Treat. Eccl. Discipline vii. §v. 178 All those poyntes wherein the same supreme autority consisteth, by the disciplinarians are..giuen..to the Consistorie..or to their Classies and Synodes.

1593 R. Bancroft Daungerous Positions iii. v. 78 The authoritie of the moderator endureth until the next meeting of that Classis.

1646 Ord. Lords & Com., Sacram. 8 Scandalous sinnes..shall be certified to any Classis, either from any Congregationall Eldership, or otherwise.

1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 63 Bear-baiting may be..as lawfull as is Provincial and Parochial Classis.

a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1697) IV. iii. 114 The reformed churches, in France, call it a Presbytery; and the meeting of the Elders over many Congregations, that they call the Classis.

1761 D. Hume 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.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) 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.

1832 R. C. Sands Writings II. 316 Last year the classis met, and recommended to the congregation to build a new church.

1858 H. Mattison Impending Crisis of 1860 105 The Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, at the session of its General Synod, held in New York, Oct., 1855, refused to admit the Classis of North Carolina,..on the ground of their connection with slavery.

1901 tr. Eccl. Rec. State N.Y. I. 94 The Classis of Amsterdam..have resolved to send thither as Proponent the Rev. and Godly N N.

1926 R. H. Tawney Relig. & Rise Capitalism iv. 215 In London..there appears to be no evidence of any exercise of jurisdiction by elders or classes.

1991 Past & Present Aug. 43 Late in 1657 the Manchester classis and then the Lancashire provincial assembly confessed that [etc.].

b. The district comprising the parishes or congregations under the jurisdiction of such a court.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > presbyterian > [noun] > presbytery > district of

presbytery1581

classis1646

1646 in Monthly Repository (1821) July 388/2 Such as come to the Sacrament and live not within the Classis where they come to receive, shall give satisfaction to the Eldershipp of their knowledge and good life.

1653 G. Firmin Sober Reply 7 Our Classis runnes 14 miles in length, and 20 severall Parishes in it.

1754 D. Hume Hist. Great Brit. I. ix. 415 A number of neighbouring parishes, commonly betwix twelve and twenty, formed a classis.

1880 Minutes of Particular Synod of Chicago 131 We have allowed the reports to answer largely for themselves, as indicative of the general condition of the Churches throughout the Classis.

1990 A. Duke Reformation & Revolt in Low Countries x. 247 Of the thirty or so villages within the classis, five certainly had consistories by 1580.

2002 J. I. Cook Church Speaks (ed. 2) iv. 227 E. T. Corwin described Article 44 as instructing classes to authorize two of their most experienced and best-qualified members to make annual visits to each of the churches within the classis boundaries.

†2. = class n. 2a. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > distinction of class > level or grade

mannishOE

placec1330

state1340

gree1382

conditionc1384

sectc1384

sortc1386

ordera1400

raff?a1400

degreea1425

countenancec1477

faction?1529

estate1530

race1563

calibre1567

being1579

coat1579

rang1580

rank1585

tier1590

classis1597

strain1600

consequence1602

regiment1602

sept1610

standinga1616

class1629

species1629

nome1633

quality1636

sort1671

size1679

situation1710

distinction1721

walk of life1733

walk1737

stage1801

strata1805

grade1808

caste1816

social stratum1838

station1842

stratum1863

echelon1950

1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xxix. 388 They run thorough al the classies and rankes of vanity.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. viii. 33 In the same classis, may well be placed Vincentius Belluacensis.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 36 Animals that come nearest the classis of Plants.

1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub i. 43 It is under this Classis, I have presumed to list my present Treatise.

1714 tr. French Bk. of Rates 394 The Commissary or Clark of each Classis of that Division.

1774 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 64 (table following p. 76) Morborum Genera... Classis II. Neuroses... G. 53. Pertussis.

3. Roman History. = class n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > distinction of class > level or grade > of Roman people

class1533

century1586

classis1601

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World 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.

1652 R. Filmer Observ. Aristotles Politiques 26 The Nobles, and richer men..did bear the chief sway, because all the poorer sort, or proletarian rabble, were clapt into the sixt Classis.

1708 B. Kennett Rom. Antiq. (ed. 4) ii. ii. xvi. 130 The first Classis containing the Equites and richest Citizens.

1851 G. Long in Cicero Orationes I. 516/2 (note) Both Livy and Dionysius assign 80 ‘centuriae’ to the first ‘classis’.

1913 W. Ridgeway in J. E. Sandys Compan. Lat. Stud. (ed. 2) 32 The round shield was that borne by the Roman classis, which was composed wholly of Patricians.

1996 C. J. Smith Early Rome (1999) ii. ii. 198 The division of the army into the classis of fully armed troops, and the larger group below that qualification.

†4. Each of a series of bookcases set at right angles to a wall in a library, each pair forming bay or alcove; the bay or alcove formed in this way; the bookshelves contained within it. Obsolete.Plural examples are usually indistinguishable from those of class n. 13, later instances of which may possibly indicate the continued use of classis.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > library or collection of books > library, place, or institution > [noun] > stall, stack, or shelf in library

classis1631

interclassis1678

class1686

stall1709

open shelf1821

stack1879

1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes i. ii. 45 in Wks. II The great roomes He has taken for the Office, and set vp His Deskes and Classes, Tables and his Shelues.

1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 230 Cornelius à Lapide..whose volumes..take up halfe a Classis in our publique Libraries.

1678 W. Dillingham Let. in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 464 There may be very well an interclassis against the midst of every window as high as the soyle of it..to come as farr out as the higher classes.

1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 96 Putting Books in Shelves under the Classes of the Middle Part of the Publick Library.

1763 Cantabrigia Depicta 22 The Galleries on the West and North Sides of the Court..containing twenty-six large beautiful classes.

†5. Originally and chiefly North American. A class in college, school, or university; = class n. 9. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > group of students or pupils

class1560

siege1566

classis1643

reading party1781

lecture1848

study circle1882

seminar1889

study group1892

masterclass1901

1643 New Eng. First Fruits 14 That they studiously..observe..the speciall houres for their owne Classis.

1673 in Harvard College Rec. (1925) I. 56 Mr. Daniell Gookin..is forthwith to take upon him the charge of a classis.

1676 tr. G. Guillet de Saint-Georges Acct. Voy. Athens iii. 220 The Janizary desired him to go on with his Boys, and give us the liberty of seeing his method, which was pretty, and much beyond ours; the Master causing the whole Classis to read at a time without confusion, every Scholar being obliged to attention.

1723 in Harvard College Rec. (1925) I. 483 After his taking the Care of the Classis to the End of this Year.

Compounds

classis lottery n. now historical a type of lottery used in the early 18th cent.See C. L'Estrange Ewen Lotteries & Sweepstakes (1932) v. 136–140 for a detailed description of this kind of lottery.

ΚΠ

1714 G. Flint Hist. Last Parl. 57 67358l. 15.s. 7 d. for supplying the Deficiency of the Fund for the Classis Lottery in 1711.

1715 London Gaz. No. 5384/2 Lost..ten Orders of the Classis Lottery 1712.

1994 C. Nicholson Writing & Rise of Finance ii. 58 In August her mother reports after the first ‘Classis’ lottery..that ‘some very ordenary creeture has got 400ll a year’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	classis
释义	classisn. Brit. /ˈklasɪs/, U.S. /ˈklæsəs/ Inflections: Plural classes. Forms: 1500s classies (plural), 1500s– classis. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin classis. Etymology: < classical Latin classis class n. Compare earlier class n.Plural examples of this word are often difficult to distinguish from plural examples of class n. 1. Christian Church. a. In the Presbyterian system: an ecclesiastical court or assembly above the consistory and below the synod consisting of the elders or pastors from each parish or congregation within a given area. Formerly also occasionally: †a parochial court, a consistory (obsolete). Cf. class n. 12a, presbytery n. 2a.Used in England (esp. in the 17th cent.) and the United States, but rarely in Scotland or with reference to the Church of Scotland or Presbyterian Churches deriving from it; presbytery is the normal term in those Churches. In recent use commonly used with reference to Reformed Churches in continental Europe, esp. the Netherlands. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > presbyterian > [noun] > presbytery eldership1557 seniory1572 presbytery1581 classis1591 consistorya1593 class1644 colloquya1672 colloque1846 elderhood1860 1591 M. Sutcliffe Treat. Eccl. Discipline vii. §v. 178 All those poyntes wherein the same supreme autority consisteth, by the disciplinarians are..giuen..to the Consistorie..or to their Classies and Synodes. 1593 R. Bancroft Daungerous Positions iii. v. 78 The authoritie of the moderator endureth until the next meeting of that Classis. 1646 Ord. Lords & Com., Sacram. 8 Scandalous sinnes..shall be certified to any Classis, either from any Congregationall Eldership, or otherwise. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 63 Bear-baiting may be..as lawfull as is Provincial and Parochial Classis. a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1697) IV. iii. 114 The reformed churches, in France, call it a Presbytery; and the meeting of the Elders over many Congregations, that they call the Classis. 1761 D. Hume 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. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) 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. 1832 R. C. Sands Writings II. 316 Last year the classis met, and recommended to the congregation to build a new church. 1858 H. Mattison Impending Crisis of 1860 105 The Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, at the session of its General Synod, held in New York, Oct., 1855, refused to admit the Classis of North Carolina,..on the ground of their connection with slavery. 1901 tr. Eccl. Rec. State N.Y. I. 94 The Classis of Amsterdam..have resolved to send thither as Proponent the Rev. and Godly N N. 1926 R. H. Tawney Relig. & Rise Capitalism iv. 215 In London..there appears to be no evidence of any exercise of jurisdiction by elders or classes. 1991 Past & Present Aug. 43 Late in 1657 the Manchester classis and then the Lancashire provincial assembly confessed that [etc.]. b. The district comprising the parishes or congregations under the jurisdiction of such a court. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > presbyterian > [noun] > presbytery > district of presbytery1581 classis1646 1646 in Monthly Repository (1821) July 388/2 Such as come to the Sacrament and live not within the Classis where they come to receive, shall give satisfaction to the Eldershipp of their knowledge and good life. 1653 G. Firmin Sober Reply 7 Our Classis runnes 14 miles in length, and 20 severall Parishes in it. 1754 D. Hume Hist. Great Brit. I. ix. 415 A number of neighbouring parishes, commonly betwix twelve and twenty, formed a classis. 1880 Minutes of Particular Synod of Chicago 131 We have allowed the reports to answer largely for themselves, as indicative of the general condition of the Churches throughout the Classis. 1990 A. Duke Reformation & Revolt in Low Countries x. 247 Of the thirty or so villages within the classis, five certainly had consistories by 1580. 2002 J. I. Cook Church Speaks (ed. 2) iv. 227 E. T. Corwin described Article 44 as instructing classes to authorize two of their most experienced and best-qualified members to make annual visits to each of the churches within the classis boundaries. †2. = class n. 2a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > distinction of class > level or grade mannishOE placec1330 state1340 gree1382 conditionc1384 sectc1384 sortc1386 ordera1400 raff?a1400 degreea1425 countenancec1477 faction?1529 estate1530 race1563 calibre1567 being1579 coat1579 rang1580 rank1585 tier1590 classis1597 strain1600 consequence1602 regiment1602 sept1610 standinga1616 class1629 species1629 nome1633 quality1636 sort1671 size1679 situation1710 distinction1721 walk of life1733 walk1737 stage1801 strata1805 grade1808 caste1816 social stratum1838 station1842 stratum1863 echelon1950 1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xxix. 388 They run thorough al the classies and rankes of vanity. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. viii. 33 In the same classis, may well be placed Vincentius Belluacensis. View more context for this quotation 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 36 Animals that come nearest the classis of Plants. 1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub i. 43 It is under this Classis, I have presumed to list my present Treatise. 1714 tr. French Bk. of Rates 394 The Commissary or Clark of each Classis of that Division. 1774 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 64 (table following p. 76) Morborum Genera... Classis II. Neuroses... G. 53. Pertussis. 3. Roman History. = class n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > distinction of class > level or grade > of Roman people class1533 century1586 classis1601 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World 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. 1652 R. Filmer Observ. Aristotles Politiques 26 The Nobles, and richer men..did bear the chief sway, because all the poorer sort, or proletarian rabble, were clapt into the sixt Classis. 1708 B. Kennett Rom. Antiq. (ed. 4) ii. ii. xvi. 130 The first Classis containing the Equites and richest Citizens. 1851 G. Long in Cicero Orationes I. 516/2 (note) Both Livy and Dionysius assign 80 ‘centuriae’ to the first ‘classis’. 1913 W. Ridgeway in J. E. Sandys Compan. Lat. Stud. (ed. 2) 32 The round shield was that borne by the Roman classis, which was composed wholly of Patricians. 1996 C. J. Smith Early Rome (1999) ii. ii. 198 The division of the army into the classis of fully armed troops, and the larger group below that qualification. †4. Each of a series of bookcases set at right angles to a wall in a library, each pair forming bay or alcove; the bay or alcove formed in this way; the bookshelves contained within it. Obsolete.Plural examples are usually indistinguishable from those of class n. 13, later instances of which may possibly indicate the continued use of classis. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > library or collection of books > library, place, or institution > [noun] > stall, stack, or shelf in library classis1631 interclassis1678 class1686 stall1709 open shelf1821 stack1879 1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes i. ii. 45 in Wks. II The great roomes He has taken for the Office, and set vp His Deskes and Classes, Tables and his Shelues. 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 230 Cornelius à Lapide..whose volumes..take up halfe a Classis in our publique Libraries. 1678 W. Dillingham Let. in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 464 There may be very well an interclassis against the midst of every window as high as the soyle of it..to come as farr out as the higher classes. 1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 96 Putting Books in Shelves under the Classes of the Middle Part of the Publick Library. 1763 Cantabrigia Depicta 22 The Galleries on the West and North Sides of the Court..containing twenty-six large beautiful classes. †5. Originally and chiefly North American. A class in college, school, or university; = class n. 9. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > group of students or pupils class1560 siege1566 classis1643 reading party1781 lecture1848 study circle1882 seminar1889 study group1892 masterclass1901 1643 New Eng. First Fruits 14 That they studiously..observe..the speciall houres for their owne Classis. 1673 in Harvard College Rec. (1925) I. 56 Mr. Daniell Gookin..is forthwith to take upon him the charge of a classis. 1676 tr. G. Guillet de Saint-Georges Acct. Voy. Athens iii. 220 The Janizary desired him to go on with his Boys, and give us the liberty of seeing his method, which was pretty, and much beyond ours; the Master causing the whole Classis to read at a time without confusion, every Scholar being obliged to attention. 1723 in Harvard College Rec. (1925) I. 483 After his taking the Care of the Classis to the End of this Year. Compounds classis lottery n. now historical a type of lottery used in the early 18th cent.See C. L'Estrange Ewen Lotteries & Sweepstakes (1932) v. 136–140 for a detailed description of this kind of lottery. ΚΠ 1714 G. Flint Hist. Last Parl. 57 67358l. 15.s. 7 d. for supplying the Deficiency of the Fund for the Classis Lottery in 1711. 1715 London Gaz. No. 5384/2 Lost..ten Orders of the Classis Lottery 1712. 1994 C. Nicholson Writing & Rise of Finance ii. 58 In August her mother reports after the first ‘Classis’ lottery..that ‘some very ordenary creeture has got 400ll a year’. 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