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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In histology, the process or result of staining.
  • noun In pharm., the addition of a flavoring or coloring agent to the ingredients of a prescription.
  • noun A preparation for dyeing : coloring matter in a state for use; that which imparts color.

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  • What stands out in my mind as a textbook case is X-tinction Agenda, which cycled through X-Men, New Mutants, and X-Factor, three issues each, with each issue a chapter in a linear progression.

    Archive 2009-09-13 2009

  • I also really like the new Asian Psylocke and even the X-tinction Agenda story arc.

    Which is your favorite X-Men Era? | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007

  • I took upon me, without pushing her, just then, upon the supposed light dropt in from this little incident, to mention the Count of Belvedere, with dis tinction, as the marquis desired I would.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • The dis - tinction between income and wealth was ignored or confused; only J.S. Mill discussed “property.”

    ECONOMIC HISTORY FRANK H. KNIGHT 1968

  • In his reply, Descartes found it necessary to make a dis - tinction.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas WILLIS DONEY 1968

  • There is also a sharper dis - tinction made between rights and duties attached to particular occupations or social roles and more general ones.

    LIBERALISM JOHN PLAMENATZ 1968

  • In general, they failed to make any clear dis - tinction between the abstract and the concrete and between logical and chronological priority.

    TIME AND MEASUREMENT G. J. WHITROW 1968

  • At first Russell hoped to establish an absolute dis - tinction between a pure, luminously certain, nonhuman source of truths that he described variously as “data,”

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas SHIRLEY ROBIN LETWIN 1968

  • But Objectivism can be formulated in two different ways, and it is important not to lose sight of the dis - tinction, though for convenience we can discuss them together.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas MONROE C. BEARDSLEY 1968

  • Sociologically anarchism is based on the dis - tinction between state and society.

    ANARCHISM ARTHUR LEHNING 1968

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