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Class \Class\ (kl[.a]s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Classed (kl[.a]st); p. pr. & vb. n. Classing.] [Cf. F. classer. See Class, n.]
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To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages.
Note: In scientific arrangement, to classify is used instead of to class.
--Dana. To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
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vb. (present participle of class English)
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Usage examples of "classing".
I have chosen this example because an explanation is not in this case applicable, which most naturalists would advance, namely, that specific characters are more variable than generic, because they are taken from parts of less physiological importance than those commonly used for classing genera.
Well, if I can get a bit of my own back by defrauding the government or classing myself with the unorganised leeches on Society, nothing I know is going to stop my doing it!
Geographical distribution may sometimes be brought usefully into play in classing large and widely-distributed genera, because all the species of the same genus, inhabiting any distinct and isolated region, have in all probability descended from the same parents.
Authors have insisted on the necessity of classing varieties on a natural instead of an artificial system.
In classing varieties, I apprehend if we had a real pedigree, a genealogical classification would be universally preferred.
As descent has universally been used in classing together the individuals of the same species, though the males and females and larvae are sometimes extremely different.
We use the element of descent in classing the individuals of both sexes and of all ages, although having few characters in common, under one species.
He once ran over to me a list of captains and supercargoes with whom he had done business, classing them under three heads: 'He cheat a litty' - 'He cheat plenty' - and 'I think he cheat too much.
And yet when Raoul began his labor of classing the flotilla, and got together the chalands and lighters to send them to Toulon, one of the fishermen told the count that his boat had been laid up to refit since a trip he had made on account of a gentleman who was in great haste to embark.
He once ran over to me a list of captains and supercargoes with whom he had done business, classing them under three heads: 'He cheat a litty'--'He cheat plenty'--and 'I think he cheat too much.