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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Category \Cat"e*go*ry\, n.; pl {Categories}. [L. categoria, Gr ?, fr ? to accuse, affirm, predicate; ? down against + ? to harrangue, assert, fr ? assembly.] 1. (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. --J. S. Mill. 2. 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.
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