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