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Classify

verb

(past & past part. classified; pres. part. classifying)

Arrange or order by classes or categories. Synonyms: assort, class, separate, sort, sort out.

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Assign to a class or kind. Synonym: relegate. "People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms"

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"Classify" Quotes from Famous Books

... the heresies of the thirteenth century is already long, but it is increasing every day, to the great joy of those erudite ones who are making strenuous efforts to classify everything in that tohu-bohu of mysticism and folly. In that day heresy was very much alive; it was consequently very complex and its powers of transformation infinite. One may indicate its currents, mark its direction, but to go farther is to condemn oneself ...

— Life of St. Francis of Assisi • Paul Sabatier

... words and phrases, every existing object can be guessed, provided care be taken to classify them according ...

— The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims - Volume II (of II) • Andrew Steinmetz

... curious. This was his first experience west of New York and he was trying to classify his impressions. The beauty of Lake City had intrigued him at first, he told Lydia, into believing that he was merely in a transplanted New England town. "And you know there are plenty of New Englanders on the faculty and many ...

— Lydia of the Pines • Honore Willsie Morrow

... door-keeper besides; and, when he opens the portals, music seems to issue forth to wake the soul to ecstasy." The skilful metaphysician or the psychologist pauses before him, completely balked: they cannot classify this mind, human-like indeed in some respects, yet in many others surpassing all humanity, and closely approximating that ...

— Music and Some Highly Musical People • James M. Trotter

... VARIETY OF MAN'S INSTINCTS. Various attempts have been made, notably by such men as James, McDougall, and Thorndike, to enumerate and classify the tendencies with which man is at birth endowed, or which, like the sex instinct, make their appearance at a certain stage in biological growth, regardless of the particular training to which the individual has been subjected. Earlier ...

— Human Traits and their Social Significance • Irwin Edman

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