Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Gregorian music: The pause or break by which melodies are divided into convenient phrases. In a verse of a psalm there are usually three such breaks: as
- noun Same as
differentia , 2.
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Examples
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Et harum quidem rerum facilis est et expedita distinctio.
Short Child etc. galenred 2008
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By the time of Suárez, these debates had crystallized around what he calls the “common distinction” (vulgaris distinctio) between a formal and an objective concept.
Descartes' Theory of Ideas Pessin, Andrew 2007
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The distinctio actualis formalis of Scotus is rejected.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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There were also divergences of opinion as to the nature of the faculties in general in themselves and to what extent there was a distinctio realis between faculties and the essence of the soul.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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St. Bonaventure wrote "De arte concionandi", in which he treats of divisio, distinctio, dilatatio, but deals extensively only with the first.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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+ The Divine attributes are distinguished from the Divine nature and from each other by a virtual distinction, i.e. by a distinctio rationis cum fundamento a parte rei.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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+ (4) "Unitas et distinctio rerum quæstionibus philosophicis explicata".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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"Consuetudines" of 1216 and form the second part (secunda distinctio).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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The following are generally rejected: formalism with the distinctio formalis, the spiritual matter of angels and of the soul, the view that the metaphysical essence of God consists in radical infinity, that the relationes trinitariae are not a perfection simpliciter simplex; that the Holy
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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There can be no medium between a distinctio realis and a distinctio rationis, or conceptual distinction; hence the distinctio formalis
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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It is Robert Grosseteste, born in Suffolk in around 1175, who we should thank for turning the medieval distinctio – an associative list of concepts, handy for sermon-builders – into something like a modern back-of-book index.
Index, a history of the: Exploring the rivalries in how we search #author.fullName} 2021
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