the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Gross; thick; dense; coarse; not elaborated or refined.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Thick; coarse; gross; not thin nor fine: now chiefly used of immaterial things.
Gross; stupid; obtuse: as, crass ignorance.
n. A species of sea-anemone, Bunodes crassicornis.
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adj. (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility
Word Usage
"Many of the Reformers (by my reading of them) condemned the notion of real presence (and transubstantiation) because they interpreted it as a fleshy and physical presence (what you call crass and I might call immoderate realist)."