Class
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. An order or rank of persons; a number of persons in society, supposed to have some resemblance or equality, in rank, education, property, talents, and the like; as in the phrase, all classes of men in society.
2. The readers of poetry may be distinguished into three classes, according to their capacity of judging.
3. A number of students in a college or school, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies. In colleges, the students entering or becoming members the same year, and pursuing the same studies. In
academies and schools, the pupils who learn the same
lesson, and
recite together. In some cases, students of different standings, pursuing the same studies and
reciting together, or attending the same professor, or the same course of lectures.
4. Scientific division or arrangement; a set of beings or things, having something in common, or ranged under a common
denomination. Hence in
zoology, animals are divided into classes; as quadrupeds, fowls, fishes, etc. So in botany, plants are arranged in classes. Classes are natural or artificial; natural, when founded on natural relations, or resemblances; artificial, when formed
arbitrarily, for want of a complete knowledge of natural relations.
Class
[Verb transitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. To arrange in a class or classes; to arrange in sets, or ranks, according to some method founded on natural distinctions; to place together, or in one division, men or things which have or are supposed to have something in common.
2. To place in ranks or divisions students that are pursuing the same studies; to form into a class or classes.
Class
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.
2. A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.
3. A comprehensive division of
animate or
inanimate objects, grouped together on account of their common characteristics, in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, genera, etc.
4. A set; a kind or description, species or variety.
5. One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the
supervision of a class leader.
6. To arrange in classes; to
classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages.
7. To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
Classible
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
Capable of being classed.
Classic
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. Relating to ancient Greek and Roman authors of the first rank or
estimation, which, in modern times, have been and still are studied as the best models of fine writing. Thus, Aristotle, Plato,
Demosthenes,
Thucydides, etc., among the Greeks, and Cicero, Virgil,
Livy,
Sallust, Cesar, and
Tacitus, among the Latins, are classical authors. Hence,
2. Pertaining to writers of the first rank among the moderns; being of the first order; constituting the best model or authority as an author; as,
Addison and Johnson are English classical writers. Hence classical denotes pure,
chaste, correct, refined; as a classical taste; a classical style.
3. At Liverpool,
Roscoe is like Pompeys column at Alexandria, towering alone in classic dignity.
Classic
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. An author of the first rank; a writer whose style is pure, correct, and refined; primarily, a Greek or Roman author of this character; but the word is applied to writers of a like character in any nation.
2. A book written by an author of the first class.
Classic
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. Alt. of Classical
2. A work of acknowledged excellence and authority, or its author; -- originally used of Greek and Latin works or authors, but now applied to authors and works of a like character in any language.
3. One learned in the literature of Greece and Rome, or a student of classical literature.
1. Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
2. Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, esp. to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
3.
Conforming to the best authority in literature and art;
chaste; pure; refined; as, a classical style.
2.
Adherence to what are supposed or assumed to be the classical canons of art.
One who adheres to what he thinks the classical canons of art.
1. In the manner of classes; according to a regular order of classes, or sets.
2. It would be impossible to bear all its specific details in the memory, if they were not classically arranged.
3. In a classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors.
1. In a classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors.
2. In the manner of classes; according to a regular order of classes or sets.
The quality of being classical.
One learned in the classics; an advocate for the classics.
Capable of being classified.
Classific
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
Constituting a class or classes; noting classification, or the order of distribution into sets.
Classific
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
The act of forming into a class or classes; distribution into sets, sorts or ranks.
The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or
affinities.
Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification.
Classified
[Participle passive]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
Arranged in classes; formed into a class or classes.
Classify
[Verb transitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. To make a class or classes; to distribute into classes; to arrange in sets according to some common properties or characters.
Classify
[Verb transitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.
