Contradistinguish
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To distinguish things by contrasting their different qualities. transitive
"Reason, therefore, here, as contradistinguished to faith, I take to be the discovery of the certainty or probability of such propositions or truths which the mind arrives at by deduction made from such ideas, which it has got by the use of its natural faculties ; viz. by sensation or reflection."
- 2 distinguish by contrasting qualities wordnet
Example
More examples"Reason, therefore, here, as contradistinguished to faith, I take to be the discovery of the certainty or probability of such propositions or truths which the mind arrives at by deduction made from such ideas, which it has got by the use of its natural faculties ; viz. by sensation or reflection."
Etymology
From contra- + distinguish.