Claspered: Definition and part of speech

Claspered

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

n. The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities.

n. One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader.
n. A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.
n. A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.
n. A comprehensive division of animate or inanimate objects, grouped together on account of their common characteristics, in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, genera, etc.
n. A set; a kind or description, species or variety.

n. Alt. of Classical
n. A work of acknowledged excellence and authority, or its author; — originally used of Greek and Latin works or authors, but now applied to authors and works of a like character in any language.

n. Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined; as, a classical style.
n. Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
n. Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, esp. to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.