Category

Zell's Condensed Dictionary · 1879 · p. 9

(kat'e-go-re.) [From Gr. katagoreuo, I give information. ] (Logic.) A general term in reference to ale general, included under it. The school philosophers distributed all the ideas of our thoughts into certain genera or cla es, which cla es the Greeks called categories, and the Latins predicaments. [s. 153]