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specific | glossatrix |

As nouns the difference between specific and glossatrix

is that specific is a distinguishing attribute or quality while glossatrix is (rare) a specifically female glossator.

As an adjective specific

is explicit or definite.

specific

English

Alternative forms

* specifick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • explicit or definite
  • (sciences) Pertaining to a species.
  • *2008 , (Richard Dawkins), The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing , Oxford 2009, p. 3:
  • *:Science and literature, then, are the two achievements of Homo sapiens that most convincingly justify the specific name.
  • (taxonomy) pertaining to a taxon at the rank of species
  • special, distinctive or unique
  • intended for, or applying to a particular thing
  • being a remedy for a particular disease
    • Quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria.
  • * Coleridge
    • In fact, all medicines will be found specific in the perfection of the science.
  • (immunology) limited to a particular antibody or antigen
  • (physics) of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy)
  • (physics) similarly referring to a value divided by any measure which acts to standardize it (e.g. thrust specific fuel consumption, referring to fuel consumption divided by thrust)
  • (physics) a measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, and is relative to that of air)

    • Antonyms

    * all-purpose * broad * general * general-purpose * generic * gross * nonspecific * overall * pandemic * universal * unspecific * widespread

    Derived terms

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    See also

    * generic

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A distinguishing attribute or quality.
  • Something particularly adapted for a particular use, as a remedy for a particular disorder
  • Specification
  • (in the plural) The details; particulars.

    • Derived terms

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    glossatrix

    English

    Noun

    (glossatrices)
  • (rare) A specifically female glossator.
  • * 1988 : Susan Noakes, Timely Reading: Between Exegesis and Interpretation , pages 119–120 (Cornell University Press; ISBN 0801421446, 9780801421440)
    • Next, this voice, which might be termed the “glossatrix ,” […]
  • * 1997 : Laura Doyle Gates, Soubz Umbrage de Passetemps: Women’s Storytelling in the Evangiles des Quenouilles, the Comptes Amoureux of Jeanne Flore and the Heptaméron , page 59 (Cérès)
    • In another rapprochement to the “genre narratif bref,” the women are claiming to have knowledge about the world based on experience, handed down in an oral tradition but open to reconfirmation, qualification or refutation at any time (as shown in the interventions of the “glossatrices ”).
  • * 2003 : Rosalind Brown-Grant, Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading Beyond Gender , page 60] ([http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521537746 Cambridge University Press; ISBN 0521537746, 9780521537742)
    • However, it is Christine’s voice as glossatrix which explicitly states that she is speaking on behalf of ‘nous crestiens’ and can thus guide the reader along a moral and spiritual path which leads beyond the limitations imposed on Othéa[.]