a. (and sb.). [f. CONTRA- + DISTINCTIVE.]

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  A.  adj. Characterized by contradistinction; serving to contradistinguish.

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1641.  Answ. Vind. Smectymnuus, Pref. 11. The name of Bishops hath been ordinarily appropriated (in a contradistinctive sense) to Church-governors in an apparent superiority.

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1657.  S. W., Schism Dispach’t, 593. Contra-distinctive of the Protestant faith from ours.

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1825.  Coleridge, Aids Refl. (1848), I. 285. The contra-distinctive constituent of humanity.

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  b.  Expressing or marking contradistinction. rare.

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1751.  Harris, Hermes, I. v. The diversity between the contradistinctive pronouns, and the enclitic, is not unknown even to the English tongue.

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  B.  sb. A contradistinctive word or form.

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1751.  Harris, Hermes, I. v. (Jodrell). The Greeks too had in the first person ἐμοῦ, ἐμοῖ, ἐμὲ for contradistinctives, and μοῦ, μοῖ, μὲ for encliticks.

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  Hence Contradistinctively adv.

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1817.  G. S. Faber, 8 Dissert. (1845), I. 132. The two are evidently mentioned contradistinctively. Ibid. (1853), Downf. Turkey (ed. 2), 110. The name of Jew … used contradistinctively to the name of Israelite.

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