Word Meanings - UNPEDIGREED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Not distinguished by a pedigree. Pollok.
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- 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. - PEDIGREE CLAUSE
A clause sometimes inserted in contracts or specifications, requiring that a material of construction, as cement, must be of a brand that has stood the test of a specified number of years' use in an important public work. - PEDIGREE
A record of the lineage or strain of an animal, as of a horse. (more info) by degrees, -- for a pedigree is properly a genealogical table which records the relationship of families by degrees; or, perh., fr. F. pied de grue crane's foot, from the - 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 - UNPEDIGREED
Not distinguished by a pedigree. Pollok. - INDISTINGUISHING
Making no difference; indiscriminative; impartial; as, indistinguishing liberalities. Johnson. - INDISTINGUISHABLY
In a indistinguishable manner. Sir W. Scott. - MISDISTINGUISH
To make wrong distinctions in or concerning. Hooker. - INDISTINGUISHED
Indistinct. "That indistinguished mass." Sir T. Browne.