Classis \Clas"sis\, n.; pl. {Classes}. [L. See {Class}, n.]
1. A class or order; sort; kind. [Obs.]
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His opinion of that classis of men. --Clarendon.
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2. (Eccl.) 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.
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