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Webster 1913 Edition
Classis
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1.
A class or order; sort; kind.
[Obs.]
His opinion of that
classis
of men. Clarendon.
2.
(Eccl.)
An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, as the Reformed Dutch. It is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the Presbyterian church.
Webster 1828 Edition
Classis
CLASSIS
,Noun.
1.
Class; order; sort.2.
A convention or assembly.