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Webster 1913 Edition

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Verb.

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imp. & p. p.

Contradistinguished

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p. pr. & vb. n.

Contradistinguishing

To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities.

These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as

contradistinguished

Locke.

Verb.

[contra and distinguish.] To distinguish not merely by differential, but by opposite qualities.

These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished.