Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CLAS'SI-FY, v.t. [L. classis, a class, and facio, to make; a word of modern coinage.]

To make a class or classes; to distribute into classes; to arrange in sets according to some common properties or characters. The diseases and casualties are not scientifically classified. – Tooke, Russ. Emp. i. 531. See also, Aikin's Letters, 106. Black's Chimistry, i. 345. Walsh, iii. 44. Stewart, El. Phil. i. 187.