Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To change the specific use or meaning of; make specifically different; differentiate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To discriminate; to separate according to specific signification or qualities; to specificate; to desynonymize.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb rare To
discriminate ; toseparate according to specificsignification or qualities; tospecificate ; todesynonymize .
Etymologies
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specificate, with de- acting as an intensifier.
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