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unclassed en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + classed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not assigned a class.
    • If for centuries, this particular animal is known to attack only one kind of other animal, are we not justified in assuming that when one of them attacks a hitherto unclassed animal, he recognises in that animal some quality which it has in common with the hereditary enemy?" 1911, Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm:
    • It may perhaps be thought by some that this movement represented on a higher plane that love of distruction, or, as we should better say, that spirit of revolt and aspiration, which Simmel finds to mark the intellectual and artistic activity of those who are unclassed or dubiously classed in the social hierarchy. 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6):
    • The Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Co. has recently delivered 19 unclassed restaurant cars for service on British Railways. 1960 April, “Restaurant cars and multiple-units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 221: