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es of a thing which constitute its species, and distinguish it from other things; as, the specific form of an animal or a plant; the specific qualities of a drug; the specific distinction between virtue and vice. Specific difference is that primary attribute which distinguishes each species from one another. I. Watts.…

Specific. Bacon.

In a specific manner.

The quality of being specific.

To show, mark, or designate the species, or the distinguishing particulars of; to specify. [Obs.] ir M. Hale.

The act of specifying or determining by a mark or limit; notation of limits. This specification or limitation of the question hinders the disputers from wandering away from the precise point of inquiry. I. Watts.

The quality or state of being specific.

Of the same species.

To discriminate; to separate according to specific signification or qualities; to specificate; to desynonymize. [R.] Inaptitude and ineptitude have been usefully despecificated. Fitzed. Hall.

Discrimination.

The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite.

dulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence. The abstinence from a present pleasure that offers itself is a pain, nay, oftentimes, a very great one. Locke.…

or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief. An abstract of every treatise he had read. Watts. Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled. Ford…

One who, or that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river.

A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit. Ye powers and spirits of this nethermost abyss. Milton. The throne is darkness, in the abyss of light. Dryden.

Act of accentuating; applications of accent. Specifically (Eccles. Mus.),

One who accepts; specifically (Law & Com.),

completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry. Specifically: (Mus.)

Dress; trappings; equipment; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers. How gay with all the accouterments of war!

e, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. Wordsworth. Hence, in specific uses: