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KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same See also: birth, nature, or as an adjective, natural
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From the application of the See also: term to the natural disposition or characteristic which marks the class to which an See also: object belongs, the general and most See also: common meaning of " class," genus or See also: species easily develops; that of See also: race, natural See also: order or See also: group, is particularly seen in such expressions as " mankind." The phrase " payment in kind," i.e. in goods or produce as distinguished from See also: money, is used as See also: equivalent to the Latin in specie; in ecclesiastical usage " communion in both kinds " or " in one kind " refers to the elements of See also: bread and See also: wine (See also: Lat. species) in the Eucharist
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