| 释义 |
diˈstinguishment Now rare or Obs.
[f. distinguish + -ment.]
1. The action of distinguishing or fact of being distinguished; distinction: also concr. something serving to distinguish. (Common in 17th c.)
1586A. Day Eng. Secretary i. (1625) 47 By distinguishment of all their properties and parts. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. ii. i. 86 Least Barbarisme..Should a like Language vse to all degrees, And mannerly distinguishment leaue out, Betwixt the Prince and Begger. 1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋297 [They] have no sexuall distinguishments. 1709Brit. Apollo II. Supernum. No. 6. 2/2 That one grand distinguishment of Nature. 1855Singleton Virgil II. 372 Ye progeny of Daucus, full alike..past distinguishment By their own parents. Ibid. 529.
†2. Clear discernment, distinct perception. Obs.
1642Sir E. Dering Sp. on Relig. 86 When you can bring the object of one sence to fall under the notion and distinguishment of another sence; so that the eye may as well see a Name or sound, as the eare can heare it. |