Definitions for "Classis"
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.
a regional body, what some other churches call a presbytery or a district
A division of the Roman army in the reform attributed to Servius Tullius.
Keywords:  broader, gathering, higher, court
a broader gathering, not a higher court
Keywords:  sort, kind, order
A class or order; sort; kind.