Classis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Ecclesiastical A governing body of pastors and elders in certain Reformed churches, having jurisdiction over local churches.
  • n. Ecclesiastical The district or churches governed by such a body.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A class or order; sort; kind.
  • n. An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, such as the Reformed Dutch. It is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the Presbyterian church.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A class or order; sort; kind.
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Class; order; sort; specifically, in zoology, a group or division of the taxonomic rank of a class.
  • n. An ecclesiastical judicatory; specifically, in the Reformed (Dutch and French) churches, a judicatory corresponding to a presbytery in the Presbyterian Church. Also class.
  • n. A class in a university, college, or school.
  • Word Usage
    "A few, indeed, went back after 1640 -- Mather says some ten or twelve of the ministers of the first "classis" or immigration were among them -- when the victory of the Puritanic party in"
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