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Class (kl&adot_;s), n. [F. classe, fr. L. classis class, collection, fleet; akin to Gr. klh^sis a calling, kalei^n to call, E. claim, haul.] 1. A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.
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2. A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.
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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.
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4. A set; a kind or description, species or variety.
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She had lost one class energies. Macaulay.
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5. (Methodist Church) One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader.
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6. One session of formal instruction in which one or more teachers instruct a group on some subject. The class may be one of a course of classes, or a single special session.
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7. A high degree of elegance, in dress or behavior; the quality of bearing oneself with dignity, grace, and social adeptness.
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Class of a curve (Math.), 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. -- Class meeting (Methodist Church), a meeting of a class under the charge of a class leader, for counsel and relegious instruction.
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Class (kl&adot_;s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Classed (kl&adot_;st); p. pr. & vb. n. Classing.] [Cf. F. classer. See Class, n.] 1. To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages.
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&hand_; In scientific arrangement, to classify is used instead of to class. Dana.
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2. To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
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Class, v. i. To be grouped or classed.
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The genus or family under which it classes. Tatham.
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Class (kl&adot_;s), a. exhibiting refinement and high character; as, a class act. Opposite of low-class [informal]
Syn. -- high-class.[PJC]