Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A governing body of pastors and elders in certain Reformed churches, having jurisdiction over local churches.
- noun The district or churches governed by such a body.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Class; order; sort; specifically, in zoology, a group or division of the taxonomic rank of a class.
- noun An ecclesiastical judicatory; specifically, in the Reformed (Dutch and French) churches, a judicatory corresponding to a presbytery in the Presbyterian Church. Also
class . - noun A class in a university, college, or school.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A class or order; sort; kind.
- noun (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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- noun obsolete A
class ororder ;sort ;kind . - noun obsolete, religion An
ecclesiastical body orjudicatory in certainchurches , such as the Reformed Dutch. It isintermediate between theconsistory and thesynod , and corresponds to thepresbytery in the Presbyterian church.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A few, indeed, went back after 1640 -- Mather says some ten or twelve of the ministers of the first "classis" or immigration were among them -- when the victory of the Puritanic party in
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A few, indeed, went back after 1640 -- Mather says some ten or twelve of the ministers of the first "classis" or immigration were among them -- when the victory of the Puritanic party in
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The lower 'classis' has paid its penalty, and only the strong and hardy are left.
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****] * A presbytery in Scotland is an inferior ecclesiastical court, the same that was afterwards called a classis in
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell David Hume 1743
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The advanced tae kwon do classis winding down at Coles Martial Arts Academy in Bethesda; there is only one more sequence of movements that Master Michael Coles wants his brown - and black-belt students to perform.
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The advanced tae kwon do classis winding down at Coles Martial Arts Academy in Bethesda; there is only one more sequence of movements that Master Michael Coles wants his brown - and black-belt students to perform.
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And thus, we know the classis cliche about doctors is you can't tell anybody what you do for a living because immediate they start pulling up their shirt and showing you their moles and asking you about their pains.
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And as Earth, Wind and Fire launch into their classis hit, "Reasons," you should pull your honey near and whisper in your sexiest voice: globalization.
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In March, two-thirds of the RCA's 46 classis, or regional bodies, voted to officially add Belhar as their fourth foundational statement of belief.
Apartheid-Era Document Finds New Life In Reformed Church 2010
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The advanced tae kwon do classis winding down at Coles Martial Arts Academy in Bethesda; there is only one more sequence of movements that Master Michael Coles wants his brown - and black-belt students to perform.
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