specifical
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
specifical (comparative more specifical, superlative most specifical)
- Synonym of specific
- 1631, Francis [Bacon], “I. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] 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[edit]
- “specifical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.