classis Meaning, Definition & Usage

Clas"sis noun
Etymology
L. See Class, n.
Wordforms
plural Classes
Definitions
  1. A class or order; sort; kind. Obs.
    His opinion of that classis of men. Clarendon.
  2. (Eccl.) An ecclesiastical body or judicatry in certain churches, as the Reformed Dutch. It is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbutery in the Presbuterian church.

Webster 1913