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Webster 1913 Edition

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Contradistinguished

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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.

contradistinguish ‎(third-person singular simple present contradistinguishes, present participle contradistinguishing, simple past and past participle contradistinguished)

(transitive) To distinguish things by contrasting their different qualities.
- 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding:
  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.
- 1916, John Dewey, Democracy and Education:
  A genuinely educative experience, then, one in which instruction is conveyed and ability increased, is contradistinguished from a routine activity on one hand, and a capricious activity on the other.