a. Obs. [app. after It. contradistinto (Florio, 1598): see COUNTERDISTINGUISH.] = CONTRADISTINCT.
1662. H. More, Philos. Writ., Pref. Gen. (1712), 14. The Essential Notion of a Spirit … is immediately counterdistinct to Matter. Ibid. (1680), Apocal. Apoc., 224. The … Divine Love, which is counterdistinct to Lust and Wantonness.
