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Word Meanings - SPECIFICATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To show, mark, or designate the species, or the distinguishing particulars of; to specify. ir M. Hale.

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  • DESIGNATE
    Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
  • SPECIES
    A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
  • SPECIFY
    To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to specify articles purchased. He has there given us an exact geography of Greece, where the countries and
  • DISTINGUISHABLE
    1. Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is not distinguishable into different ideas.
  • DISTINGUISH
    di- = dis- + stinguere to quench, extinguish; prob. orig., to prick, and so akin to G. stechen, E. stick, and perh. sting. Cf. 1. Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark
  • DISTINGUISHMENT
    Observation of difference; distinction. Graunt.
  • DISTINGUISHABLY
    So as to be distinguished.
  • DISTINGUISHING
    Constituting difference, or distinction from everything else; distinctive; peculiar; characteristic. The distinguishing doctrines of our holy religion. Locke. Distinguishing pennant , a special pennant by which any particular vessel in a fleet
  • DISTINGUISHABLENESS
    The quality of being distinguishable.
  • DISTINGUISHINGLY
    With distinction; with some mark of preference. Pope.
  • DISTINGUISHED
    1. Marked; special. The most distinguished politeness. Mad. D' Arblay. 2. Separated from others by distinct difference; having, or indicating, superiority; eminent or known; illustrious; -- applied to persons and deeds. Syn. -- Marked;
  • DISTINGUISHER
    1. One who, or that which, distinguishes or separates one thing from another by marks of diversity. Sir T. Browne. 2. One who discerns accurately the difference of things; a nice or judicious observer. Dryden.
  • DISTINGUISHEDLY
    In a distinguished manner. Swift.
  • CONTRADISTINGUISH
    To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
  • INDISTINGUISHABLE
    Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
  • INDISTINGUISHING
    Making no difference; indiscriminative; impartial; as, indistinguishing liberalities. Johnson.
  • PREDESIGNATE
    A term used by Sir William Hamilton to define propositions having their quantity indicated by a verbal sign; as, all, none, etc.; -- contrasted with preindesignate, defining propositions of which the quantity is not so indicated.
  • INDISTINGUISHABLY
    In a indistinguishable manner. Sir W. Scott.
  • SUBSPECIES
    A group somewhat lessdistinct than speciesusually are, but based on characters more important than those which characterize ordinary varieties; often, a geographical variety or race.
  • PREINDESIGNATE
    Having no sign expressive of quantity; indefinite. See Predesignate.
  • MISDISTINGUISH
    To make wrong distinctions in or concerning. Hooker.

 

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