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noun

Category n. (pl. categories)

(Logic.) One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament. "The categories or predicaments the former a Greek word, the latter its literal translation in the Latin language were intended by Aristotle and his followers as an enumeration of all things capable of being named; an enumeration by the summa genera i.e., the most extensive classes into which things could be distributed."

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."

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"Category" Quotes from Famous Books

... like these stanzas, I should not have spoken so strongly concerning its faults. There are a few more such in it. It closes with a very fantastic use of musical terms, following upon a curious category of the works of nature as praising God, to which I refer for the sake of one stanza, or rather of one line ...

— England's Antiphon • George MacDonald

... I'm sure I was created for the East. Hence the sympathy that exists between the Rajah and myself. You know, Mary, you really are absurdly prejudiced against him. Richard was the same. He never had any cause to be jealous. They simply didn't come into the same category." ...

— The Lamp in the Desert • Ethel M. Dell

... to say, in a fashion which declares the presence of a human heart, a human soul, a human intelligence. Singers not possessed of these indispensable qualities should in my judgment be ranked in the category of mechanical instruments. Mlle. Alboni is an artist entirely devoted to her art, and has not up to this moment been tempted to make a trade of it; she has never heretofore given a thought to what her delicious notes—precious pearls, which she lavishes ...

— Great Singers, Second Series - Malibran To Titiens • George T. Ferris

... it is reproduced in new forms adapted to the existing wants of man. Moreover, without any new exertion of abstinence, this amount of capital may be again consumed and reproduced, and so go on forever, after once being saved (if never destroyed in the mean while, thereby passing out of the category not only of capital, but also of wealth). The total capital of the country, then, is not the sum of one year's capital added to that of another; but that of last year reproduced in a new form this year, plus ...

— Principles Of Political Economy • John Stuart Mill

... here for days, or indeed for ever. The authorities of Mexico, such as they are at present, don't show themselves very zealous in the pursuit of escaped criminals. But neither you nor I, Senor Kearney, come under that category—unluckily for us, just now—and the Pedregal, labyrinth though it be, will get surrounded and explored—every inch of it within the next forty-eight hours. So out of it we must ...

— The Free Lances - A Romance of the Mexican Valley • Mayne Reid

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