distinctive (distingktiv)

[= F. distinc tif Sp. distintivo = Pg. distinctivo = It. dis tintivo, Pronounce thy speeche distinctly , see thou mark well thy worde. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 75. When all were plac'd in seats distinctly known, And he their father had a um'd the throne, Upon his ivory scepter first he leant. Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Meta morph., i. 229. Hence-2. Without doubt; obviously; evidently; incontrovertibly. To despair of what a conscientious collection and study of facts may lead to, and to declare any problem insoluble, because difficult and far off, is distinctly to be on the wrong side in science. E. B. Tylor , Prim. Culture, I. 22. Your conduct has been distinctly and altogether unpardonable. L. W. M. Lockhart , Mine is Thine, xxxix. He has... distinctly weakened his position by claiming as Cyprian the Catalogue of Ships. Amer . Jour. Philol ., VIII. 479. 31. Separately; in different places. IMG:content-2893.png:[blocks in formation] Whenever we try to recall a scene we saw but for a moment, there are always a few traits that recur, the rest being blurred and vague, instead of the whole being revived in equal distinctne or indistinctne . J. Ward, Encyc. Brit., XX. 61. Extensive distinctne . See extensive. Syn. Distinct ne , Distinction (see distinction ), plainne , perspicuity, explicitne , lucidity.