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ve or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark off by some characteristic. Not more distinguished by her purple vest, Than by the charming features of her face. Dryden. Milton has distinguished the sweetbrier and the eglantine. Nares.

Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is not distinguishable into different ideas. Locke.

The quality of being distinguishable.

So as to be distinguished.

Marked; special. The most distinguished politeness. Mad. D' Arblay.

In a distinguished manner. [R.] Swift.

One who, or that which, distinguishes or separates one thing from another by marks of diversity. Sir T. Browne.

fference, or distinction from everything else; distinctive; peculiar; characteristic. The distinguishing doctrines of our holy religion. Locke. Distinguishing pennant (Naut.), a special pennant by which any particular vessel in a fleet is recognized and signaled. Simmonds.

With distinction; with some mark of preference. Pope.

Observation of difference; distinction. Graunt.

To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.

Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form or color; the difference between them was indisguishable.…

In a indistinguishable manner. Sir W. Scott.

Indistinct. [R.] "That indistinguished mass." Sir T. Browne.

Making no difference; indiscriminative; impartial; as, indistinguishing liberalities. [Obs.] Johnson.

To make wrong distinctions in or concerning. Hooker.

e of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.

wn from the eye, parallel to a given right line, cuts the perspective plane; so called to distinguish it from the principal point, or point of view, where a line drawn from the eye perpendicular to the perspective plane meets this plane. -- Accidental lights (Paint.), secondary lights; effects of light other than ordi…

Continued pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain. "Such an ache in my bones." Shak.

Color blindness; inability to distinguish colors; Daltonism.