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Classics vs Classis - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between classics and classis

is that classics is the branch of the humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient mediterranean world; especially ancient greece and ancient rome during the classical era or classics can be while classis is (obsolete) a class or order; sort; kind.

classics

English

(wikipedia classics)

Noun

(-)
  • the branch of the humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean World; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during the classical era

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (head)

    • classis

    English

    Noun

    (classes)
  • (obsolete) A class or order; sort; kind.
  • * Clarendon
    • His opinion of that classis of men.
  • (obsolete, religion) An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, such as the Reformed Dutch. It is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the Presbyterian church.
  • * 1982 , Keith L. Sprunger, Dutch Puritanism
    • At Utrecht and Breda there was strong pressure from the Dutch Reformed Church to exclude from employment British preachers who refused to take membership in the classis .
    (Webster 1913) ----