classis
Noun
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Noun
classis (plural classes)
- (obsolete) A class or order; sort; kind.
- His opinion of that classis of men.
- (religion) An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, such as the Reformed Dutch. It is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the Presbyterian church.
- 1982, Keith L. Sprunger, Dutch Puritanism
- At Utrecht and Breda there was strong pressure from the Dutch Reformed Church to exclude from employment British preachers who refused to take membership in the classis.
- 1982, Keith L. Sprunger, Dutch Puritanism
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