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There is also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun; this philosophy is called blindness.

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 Meanings and Examples of CLASSIFY
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classify
 v.  declare unavailable, as for security reasons; arrange or order by classes or categories
Classic Sentence:
1  There was a man who was well known in his community as a Negro, but who was so white that even an expert would have hard work to classify him as a black man.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI.
2  There is also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun; this philosophy is called blindness.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
3  It was evident that the person who had had the ordering of that unclean procession had not classified them.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
4  A physiologist might have studied in him the growing symptoms of that febrile absorption known to, and classified by, science, and which is to suffering what voluptuousness is to pleasure.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE
5  He was fond of talking about Shakespeare, Raphael, Beethoven, of the significance of new schools of poetry and music, all of which were classified by him with very conspicuous consistency.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 33
6  She knew that Gerty Farish admired her blindly, and therefore supposed that she inspired the same sentiments in Grace Stepney, whom she classified as a Gerty Farish without the saving traits of youth and enthusiasm.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
Example Sentence:
1  The US government agency responsible to classify viruses, the Centre for Disease Control, says it was in the process of deciding whether to change the strain's classification.
2  It is necessary initially to classify the headaches into certain types.
3  He has a security clearance that allows him access to classified information.
4  The books in the library are classified by/according to subject.
5  All rural settlements were classified according to their size.
6  The books in the library are classified according to subject.
7  In law, beer is classified as a food product.
8  One movie is classified as pure art, the other as entertainment.
9  At least one British officer was feeding him with classified information.
10  A number of local societies publish booklets which may be classified as mini-dictionaries.
11  Frogs are classified as amphibian.
12  Because of this, glucose is classified as a reducing sugar.
13  Prescription sleeping pills are normally classified as sedative hypnotics.
14  Although the pumpkin is botanically classified as a fruit, it is widely regarded as a vegetable.
15  The US government agency responsible for classifying viruses, the Centre for Disease Control, says it was in the process of deciding whether to change the strain's classification when it was informed that it had been widely circulated.