Word Meanings - TRACTATOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who writes tracts; specif., a Tractarian. C. Kingsley.

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• SPECIFICNESS
  The quality or state of being specific.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• TRACTARIANISM
  The principles of the Tractarians, or of those persons accepting the teachings of the "Tracts for the Times."
• SPECIFY
  To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to specify articles purchased. He has there given us an exact geography of Greece, where the countries and
• SPECIFIABLE
  Admitting specification; capable of being specified.
• SPECIFICALNESS
  The quality of being specific.
• SPECIFICATION
  1. 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. 2. The designation
• SPECIFICATE
  To show, mark, or designate the species, or the distinguishing particulars of; to specify. ir M. Hale.
• SPECIFICAL
  Specific. Bacon.
• SPECIFIC
  Exerting a peculiar influence over any part of the body; preventing or curing disease by a peculiar adaption, and not on general principles; as, quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria. In fact, all medicines will be found specific in
• TRACTARIAN
  One of the writers of the Oxford tracts, called "Tracts for the Times," issued during the period 1833-1841, in which series of papers the sacramental system and authority of the Church, and the value of tradition, were brought into prominence. Also,
• CONSPECIFIC
  Of the same species.
• DESPECIFICATE
  To discriminate; to separate according to specific signification or qualities; to specificate; to desynonymize. Inaptitude and ineptitude have been usefully despecificated. Fitzed. Hall.
• DESPECIFICATION
  Discrimination.