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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Classis \Clas"sis\, noun; pl. {Classes}. [L. See {Class}, noun]

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

His opinion of that classis of men. --Clarendon.

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.