| 单词 |
contradistinctive |
| 释义 |
contradistinctive, a. (and n.)|ˌkɒntrədɪˈstɪŋktɪv|
[f. contra- + distinctive.]
A. adj. Characterized by contradistinction; serving to contradistinguish.
1641Answ. Vind. Smectymnuus Pref. 11 The name of Bishops hath been ordinarily appropriated (in a contradistinctive sense) to Church-governors in an apparent superiority. 1657S. W. Schism Dispach't 593 Contra-distinctive of the Protestant faith from ours. 1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 285 The contra-distinctive constituent of humanity.
b. Expressing or marking contradistinction. rare.
1751Harris Hermes i. v, The diversity between the contradistinctive pronouns, and the enclitic, is not unknown even to the English tongue.
B. n. A contradistinctive word or form.
1751Harris Hermes i. v. (Jodrell), The Greeks too had in the first person ἐµοῦ, ἐµοῒ, ἐµὲ for contradistinctives, and µοῦ, µοῒ, µὲ for encliticks.
Hence contradistinctively adv.
1817G. S. Faber 8 Dissert. (1845) I. 132 The two are evidently mentioned contradistinctively. 1853― Downf. Turkey (ed. 2) 110 The name of Jew..used contradistinctively to the name of Israelite. |
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