specificaten.
rare.
Something specified or stated.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [noun] > quality of being determined or specified > specification of something desired or decided on > something specified
specificate1804
1804 S. T. Coleridge in Blackwood's Mag. (1882) 131 124 The imaginative power..acting with its permeative..might on the thoughts, images, specificates of the poet.
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specificatev.
/spɛˈsɪfɪkeɪt//spəˈsɪfɪkeɪt/ Now rare or Obsolete.1866 Nation 4 Oct. 269/1 Words have seemingly contrary and inconsistent tendencies. Now they incline to specificate that which was generic; now to generalize that which was specific.
1. transitive (also reflexive). To distinguish as belonging to a particular species, group, kind, etc.; to determine specifically.
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1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 43 Whereby men are most specially specificated and individuated.
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1958) IX. 146 Life is the character by which Christ specificates and denominates himselfe.
1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies iv. iii. 7 An action is said to be specificated by its object, and individuated by its circumstances.
1653 G. Ashwell Fides Apostolica 57 A peculiar Epithite, wherby he specificates himselfe.
1675 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Trunks i. ii. 10 The Properties, whereby the said Vessels of the Bark are specificated and distinguished one from an other.
2. To apply specifically or especially to; to confine or limit to.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > apply or restrict specifically to something [verb (transitive)]
propera1398
particularize1588
specificate1631
1631 J. Burges Answer Reioyned 33 God doth not onely commend Davids affection in generall, but his affection [is] actuated to a deed, and specificated to this deede.
a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) 843 That passage being it seems anciently specificated to Resurrectio Prima.
1687 J. Renwick Choice Coll. (1776) 446 We must understand that prayer to be specificated to that all for whom he gave himself a ransom.
3. To give specific or explicit details of or concerning; to mention specifically or in detail; to particularize or specify.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > make specific [verb (transitive)]
specify1645
specificate1649
specificize1885
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > make specific [verb (transitive)] > specify or state precisely
notea1325
specifyc1340
definec1374
assign1377
expressc1400
stevenc1425
condescend1510
particulate1579
particularize1593
particular1605
specialize1616
specificate1649
individualize1655
designate1677
determinate1681
precise1793
precisionize1847
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar Pref. sig. c4 Those few superadded precepts, in which God did specificate their prime duty.
1654 G. Goddard in T. Burton Diary (1828) (modernized text) I. Introd. p. cl But we shall..labour to specificate our enemies, to know who they be, and are, that seek the very destruction and being of these nations.
1843 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 10 137/1 In beginning the following story, with the same popular phrase, we specificate a very different moment from the arduous struggles of the Pretender.
1847 Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. XXXVI. 632 Of which latter office my Correspondent could not..quite specificate the meaning.
4. To render specific in character or qualities. †Chiefly Chemistry (common c1650–80).
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1650 E. Ashmole tr. A. Dee Fasciculus Chemicus 125 That it might..communicate its fixt Nature, to the prepared Medicine, which being specificated it might at length become perfect.
1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 257 The vine..specificates the water..into its own shape.
1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. x. 607/1 It is a general Remedy, and may be specificated by the addition of several Salts.
5. intransitive. To become specific.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > become specific [verb (intransitive)]
specificate1835
1835 S. T. Coleridge in Fraser's Mag. 12 494 In a crystal we may perceive a tendency to specificate, or become a specific total.
Derivatives
speˈcificated adj.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [adjective] > rendered specific
specificated1651
1651 J. French Art Distillation v. 163 When it hath received its body by becoming a specificated salt.
1666 R. Boyle Origine Formes & Qualities 316 All the Volatile, and Acid, and Lixiviate Salts, that we know of, are of so determinate and specificated a Nature,..that there is no one sort of the three.
speˈcificating adj.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [adjective] > rendering specific
specificative1641
specificating1657
1657 J. Owen Vind. Treat. Schism ix. 142 Disputes about an implicit and explicit covenant, of specificating forms [etc.].
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. i. 40 Without any particular, specificating, concurrent, new imperate act of the Divine special Providence to every particular determination of his Will.
1763 W. Lewis Commercium Philosophico-technicum 72 The specificating principles of the metal.
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