单词 | distinguishment |
释义 | distinguishmentn. Now rare or Obsolete. 1. The action of distinguishing or fact of being distinguished; distinction: also concrete something serving to distinguish. (Common in 17th cent.) ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [noun] > a difference or distinction shedc950 diversityc1340 differencea1382 differencea1393 severance1422 distinction1435 discretivec1487 differing1528 unlikeness1561 distinguishment1592 fork1639 discrimen1644 misresemblancea1693 bright line1842 1592 A. Day Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) i. sig. H4v By distinguishment of all their properties and partes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) ii. i. 88 Least Barbarisme..Should a like Language vse to all degrees, And mannerly distinguishment leaue out, Betwixt the Prince and Begger. View more context for this quotation 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋297 [They] have no sexuall distinguishments. 1709 Brit. Apollo: Supernumerary Paper Sept. That one grand distinguishment of Nature. 1859 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Aeneid xii, in tr. Virgil Wks. II. 529. A wilding-olive with its bitter leaves, To seamen erst a wood to be revered..But its religious stem the Teucrians With no distinguishment had cleared away, That they might hurtle on a naked field. 1859 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Aeneid x, in tr. Virgil Wks. II. 372 Ye progeny of Daucus, full alike..past distinguishment By their own parents. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > [noun] > faculty of shedc1000 discretionc1384 tastea1400 discernment1570 distinction1609 distinguishment1642 discrimination1764 1642 E. Dering Coll. Speeches 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1592 |
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