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Stratify

verb

(past & past part. stratified; pres. part. stratifying)

Divide society into social classes or castes.

Form layers or strata.

Develop different social levels, classes, or castes.

Form, arrange, or deposit in layers. "The rock was stratified by the force of the water" , "A statistician stratifies the list of names according to the addresses"

Render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand.

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"Stratify" Quotes from Famous Books

... houses and stables which will make it easy to entertain their friends, and depending for society on chosen guests rather than on the mob of millionaires who come together for social rivalry. But I do not fret myself about it. Society will stratify itself according to the laws of social gravitation. It will take a generation or two more, perhaps, to arrange the strata by precipitation and settlement, but we can always depend on one principle to govern the arrangement of the layers. People interested in the ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

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