Part 1975

<hw>Clasp"ered</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Furnished with tendrils.</def>

<h1>Class</h1> <Xpage=261>

<hw>Class</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>classe</ets>, fr. L. <ets>classis</ets> class, collection, fleet; akin to Gr. <?/ a calling, <?/ to call, E. <ets>claim</ets>, <ets>haul</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; <as>as, the different <ex>classes</ex> of society; the educated <ex>class</ex>; the lower <ex>classes</ex>.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>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, gemera, etc.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A set; a kind or description, species or variety.</def>

<blockquote>She had lost one <b>class</b> energies. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Methodist Church)</fld> <def>One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a <i>class leader</i>.</def>

<cs><col>Class of a curve</col> <fld>(Math.)</fld>, <cd>the kind of a curve as expressed by the number of tangents that can be drawn from any point to the curve. A circle is of the second class.</cd> -- <col>Class meeting</col> <fld>(Methodist Church)</fld>, <cd>a meeting of a class under the charge of a class leader, for counsel and relegious instruction.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Class</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Classed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Classing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>classer</ets>. See <er>Class</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; <as>as, to <ex>class</ex> words or passages</as>.</def>

<note>&hand; In scientific arrangement, to <i>classify</i> is used instead of to <i>class</i>.</note>

<i>Dana.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.</def>

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<hw>Class</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To grouped or classed.</def>

<blockquote>The genus or famiky under which it <b>classes</b>. <i>Tatham.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Classible</h1> <Xpage=261>

<hw>Class"i*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being classed.</def>

<h1>Classic, Classical</h1> <Xpage=261>

<hw><hw>Clas"sic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Clas"sic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>classicus</ets> relating to the classes of the Roman people, and especially to the frist class; hence, of the first rank, superior, from <ets>classis</ets> class: cf. F. <ets>classique</ets>. See <er>Class</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.</def>

<blockquote>Give, as thy last memorial to the age, One <b>classic</b> drama, and reform the stage. <i>Byron.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Mr. Greaves may justly be reckoned a <b>classical</b> author on this subject [Roman weights and coins]. <i>Arbuthnot.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>Though throned midst Latium's <b>classic</b> plains. <i>Mrs. Hemans.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The epithet <b>classical</b>, as applied to ancient authors, is determined less by the purity of their style than by the period at which they wrote. <i>Brande & C.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He [Atterbury] directed the <b>classical</b> studies of the undergraduates of his college. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined; <as>as, a <ex>classical</ex> style</as>.</def>