a. rare. [f. L. type *classific-us, f. classi-s CLASS + -ficus making.] That constitutes or distinguishes a class or classes; tending or pertaining to classification.
1809–10. Coleridge, Friend (1818), III. 166. Linnæus … adopting from Bartholinus and others the sexuality of plants, grounded thereon a scheme of classific and distinctive marks.
1828. Webster cites Med. Repos. Hex. 2.
Hence Classifically adv., with classific force.
1854. Ellicott, Galatians, 74–5. Ὄστις … [is] used … Classifically i.e. where the subject is represented as one of a class or category.
