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Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category. There is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category. De Quincey.

Of or pertaining to a category.

One who inserts in a category or list; one who classifies. Emerson.

To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

t; to wrest. The vertebral arteries are variously contorted. Ray. Kant contorted the term category from the proper meaning of attributed. Sir W. Hamilton.

account on which are entered all items reckoned as values received from the party or the category named at the head of the account; also, any one, or the sum, of these items; -- the opposite of debit; as, this sum is carried to one's credit, and that to his debit; A has several credits on the books of B. Bank credit,…

signation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals; a category; as, the denomination of units, or of thousands, or of fourths, or of shillings, or of tons. Those [qualities] which are classed under the denomination of sublime. Burke.

Belonging to the same category of individuality; -- a morphological term applied to organisms so related.

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ate as to state secrets; also, by statute, clergymen and physicans are placed in the same category, so far as concerns information received by them professionally.