CATEGORY, noun In logic, a series or order of all the predicates or attributes contained under a genus. The school philosophers distributed all the objects of our thoughts and ideas into genera or classes. Aristotle made ten categories, viz. Substance, quantity, quality, relation, action, passion, time, place, situation and habit.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.