discriminate

[Lat. disc rim in at us, pa. par. of disc rim i no.) Distinguished, distinctive, distinct; having the difference marked. "Oysters and cockles, and muscles, which move not, have no discriminate sex."- Bacon : Natural History. dis-crim-in-a-ted, pa. par or a. [DISC RIM IN. ΑΤΕ, τ.] dis-crim-in-ate-ly, adv. [Eng. discriminate; -ly. In a discriminating manner; with discrimination, distinctly. "His conception of an Elegy he has in this Preface very judiciously and discriminately explained." -Johnson: Lives of the Poets; Shenstone,