Distinguishing
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Distinguish
(a.) Constituting difference, or distinction from everything else; distinctive; peculiar; characteristic.
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, a , or an . PCP. It is presumably an older spelling of scanned. --2. Specifically (Pros.), to go through with, as a verse, marking and distinguishing the feet of which it is composed; to show, in reading, the metrical structure of; to recite metrically Contradistinct Contradistinction Contradistinctive Contradistinguish Contradistinguished Contradistinguishing Distich Distichous Distichously