Meanings
comparative more specifical · superlative most specifical
- Synonym of specific.
it is referred to a hidden propriety , a specifical virtue , and a fourth quality
1627 (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 […], →OCLC1 more example
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 36Synonyms: specific
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveSynonym of specific.
Origin
- Latinspecificus
- Middle Englishspecificalle
- Englishspecifical
From Middle English specificalle, from Latin specificus + -al.
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