Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CAT'E-GORY, n. [Gr. κατηγορια, from κατηγορεω, to accuse, show, demonstrate; κατα and αγορεω, to speak in an assembly, to harangue or denounce, from αγορα, a forum, judicial tribunal or market.]

In logic, a series or order of all the predicates, or attributes contained under a genus. The school philosophers distributed all the objects of our thoughts and ideas into genera or classes. Aristotle made ten categories, viz. substance, quantity, quality, relation, action, passion, time, place, situation, and habit. – Encyc.