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class

-) Verb. 

-) Pronunciation: klɑːs, or klæs. 

-) Etymology: from the noun CLASS, from Latin classis (= class).

-) Preterite tense: classed. Preterite participle: classed.

-) Present participle: classing

-) Transitively: 1. a. To divide or distribute (a plurality of things) into classes, by designation. b. To divide or distribute (a plurality of things) into classes, by actual movement.

-) Synonym: classify.

There are many mountains, indeed, which have not the smallest appearance of being formed under the waters, and this fact causes an insurmountable difficulty in classing mountains.

Richard Sulivan… A View of Nature 1794

-) 2. a. To designate (something or someone) as pertaining to a class; to assign to a class. b. To place (something or someone) among a group named class.

-) Antonyms: disclass, declass.

-) Translation: clasificar, in Spanish; classificare, in Italian; classer, in French.

… I have already remarked that it is doubtful whether New Zealand and New Caledonia ought to be classed as oceanic islands.

Darwin… On the origin of species 1859

[…] so many places of interest did I visit, that I might rather have been classed as a "commercial tourist" than as a commercial traveler.

Clifford Beers… A Mind… 1908

The term "barrier" has been generally applied to that vast reef which fronts the N.E. shore of Australia, and by most voyagers likewise to that on the western coast of New Caledonia. At one time I thought it convenient thus to restrict the term, but as these reefs are similar in structure, and in position relatively to the land, to those, which, like a wall with a deep moat within, encircle many smaller islands, I have classed them together.

Darwin… Coral reefs 1842

-) With the preposition “under”, to signify subordination to a noun that is designative of the class:

Love, lust,  […] harlotry, all words found in the dictionary, and all of which I suppose may be classed under the term erotic.

Walter… My secret life 1888

If two species belonging to two distinct though allied genera, had both produced a large number of new and divergent forms, it is conceivable that these might approach each other so closely that they would have all to be classed under the same genus.

Darwin… On the origin of species 1859

-)  With the preposition “with”, to signify a joining together of two or more beings of the same class:

My partiality towards my sister Mary had not been unnoticed. Lucretia classed me with those whom she despised.

Rachel Hunter… Lady Maclairn 1806

[The Lama] is used, in South America, for the same services which the Arabians impose upon on the camel, and is classed by naturalists with that animal.

Benjamin Silliman… A journal of travels in England… 1810

In deciding whether a bat should be classed with birds or beasts, we have to determine the nature of the beast and the true theory of his wings.

The Fortnightly… 1871

-)  With the preposition “among”, to signify an assemblage of beings of the same class:

[…] it is that substances which have at one time been classed among plants, have at another time been classed among animals.

Claudius Loudon… An encyclopedia of gardening 1839

This bird is of a brown colour […]. Some naturalists have classed it among the vultures, because its neck and head are bare of feathers.

John Bigland… A natural history of birds 1845

-) Intransitively: to be classed or grouped.

The merit of every individual is to be estimated by a comparison with the genius under which it classes.

The English Review 1788

-) Words derived from Latin classis: declassify, declassifiable, declassification, declassified, disclassify, classable, classed, classer, classic, classical, classicality, classicalize, classically, classicism, classicist, classicistic, classicize, classifiable, classific, classifically, classification, classificational, classificator, classificatory, classified, classifier, classify, classifying, classiness, classing, classless, classlessness, classmate, classy, unclassable, unclassed, unclassic, unclassical, unclassically, unclassifiable, unclassified.