specifical
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English
Etymology
From Middle English specificalle, from Latin specificus + -al.[1]
Adjective
specifical (comparative more specifical, superlative most specifical)
- Synonym of specific
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “I. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , London: William Rawley ; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:
- it is referred to a hidden propriety , a specifical virtue , and a fourth quality
- 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 36:
- it is not therefore so much the understanding that constitutes, among animals, the specifical distinction of man, as his quality of a free agent.
References
- “specifical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ “specifical, adj. and n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
