specifical
adjEtymology From Middle English specificalle, from Latin specificus + -al.
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Synonym of specific.
- it is referred to a hidden propriety , a specifical virtue , and a fourth quality1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “I. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- it is not therefore so much the understanding that constitutes, among animals, the specifical distinction of man, as his quality of a free agent.1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 36:
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- specificalness