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contradistinguish, v.|ˌkɒntrədɪˈstɪŋgwɪʃ|
[f. contra- 1 + distinguish.]
trans. To distinguish (two things, or one thing from another) by contrasting or opposing their differences.
1640Bp. Hall Episc. ii. §1. 84 Soon after, the very terms were contra-distinguished, both by the substance of their charge, and by the property of their Titles. 1673Marvell Reh. Transp. II. 230 Whensoever those come to be contradistinguished, not man but God is to be obey'd. 1824T. Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 410 We do not know exactly when the common law and statute law began to be contra-distinguished. 1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 165 Doctrines..not only essential to the Christian religion, but..which contra-distinguish the religion as Christian.
b. with from, also to (now unusual); † against.
1622Bp. Hall Serm. Wks. 1837 V. 127 The reasonable part of the soul..being contradistinguished to the sensitive. 1640― Episc. iii. §1. 220 He is faine to contradistinguish them from teaching Elders. 1656[J. Sergeant] tr. White's Peripatet. Inst. 193 Substance, as 'tis contradistinguish't against Quantity. 1705Berkeley Commpl Bk. Wks. IV. 438 In revealed Theology, as contradistinguish'd from natural. 1856Sir B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. I. v. 187 Instinct, as contradistinguished to the higher faculties of the intellect. 1876M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma 2 The development which contradistinguishes the Hellene from the barbarian.
Hence contradiˈstinguished ppl. a. = contradistinct; contradiˈstinguishing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1636Abp. J. Williams Holy Table (1637) 103 These foure contradistinguished Tenets or Positions. 1642Sir E. Dering Sp. on Relig. 21 June D iv, Two several contradistinguished functions. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. 149 Poetry of the highest kind may exist without metre, and even without the contradistinguishing objects of a poem. 1875Poste Gaius ii. (ed. 2) 160 Gaius..wishes us..to make Obligation..and even some forms of Dominion, members of the contra-distinguished branch, res incorporalis. |