classes

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Classis \Clas"sis\, n.; pl. Classes. [L. See Class, n.]

1.A class or order; sort; kind. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

His opinion of that classis of men.— Clarendon.[1913 Webster]

2.(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. [1913 Webster]