<Distinct, distinctive.

There were four separate and distinctive calls.

It wasn't a question of comparison; the two men stood apart, distinctive, in every attribute.

The white plume was the distinctive mark of the House of Bourbon. Oriflamme, or Auriflamme (lit.

Many more accounts of cremation among different tribes might be given to show how prevalent was the custom, but the above are thought to be sufficiently distinctive to serve as examples.

" "And the house itself?the distinctive appellation of the family?" "We have always been called Homespun.

It was generally added to some distinctive name or appellation, as the Roman emperors added the name of Cæsar to their own.

Reduced from her imperial high abode, 1260 Like Dionysius to a private rod, The Passive Church, that with pretended grace Did her distinctive mark in duty place, Now touch'd, reviles her Maker to his face.

Assuming that many of my readers have never enjoyed the opportunity of "sitting out a debate" in Parliament, I have ventured to hope that a description of some of the distinctive features which are peculiar to the House of Commons, and a sketch of some of its prominent members, might not be unwelcome.

Now, however, the joke has developed a serious side, as their two characters, though in no wise precocious, have become distinctive.

It is well known that the Indian tribes have taken their distinctive names chiefly from geographical features, and these often in turn control the pace of the people.

Again, the suggestion, that, "Analysis consists in pointing out the words or groups of words which constitute the elements of a sentence," has nothing distinctive in it; and, without some idea of the author's peculiar system of "elements," previously impressed upon the mind, is scarcely, if at all, intelligible.

It is not an elliptical form of the future, as some affirm it to be; nor equivalent to the indicative present, as others will have it; but a true subjunctive, though its distinctive parts are chiefly confined to the second and third persons singular of the simple verb: as, "Though thou wash thee with nitre.

"To preserve the distinctive uses of the copulative and the disjunctive conjunctions.

III, that the distinctive OR has a double use.

For, if one may be plural, we have no distinctive definition or notion of either number.

Or, this portion rather deserves the distinctive title adopted by the editors, viz.

These words seem to come at times charged with the very marrow of the mind, and, if the letters of a man who occasionally indulges in them be wholly purged of them, the letters lose one of their most distinctive characteristics.

Their distinctive speech was of Church and priesthood, of Sacraments and services, as the vesture under the varied folds of which the Form of the Divine Redeemer was to be exhibited to the world in a way capable of, and suited for, transmission by a collective body from generation to generation.

Dress lost its richness of ornament and its distinctive characteristics.

Instead to his ears, growing louder moment by moment, penetrating the illy constructed walls, came an indistinct roar; rising, lowering, yet ever constant: a sound unlike any other on earth, distinctive as the silence preceding had been typicalthe clamour of angry, menacing human voices en masse.

Ranchers there were in corduroys and denims, cowboys in buckskin and flannel, gamblers in the glaring colours distinctive of their kind, business men with closely cropped moustaches, idlers in anything and everything; but amid them all not a friendly face.

Brief as was his ministry in his higher office, and to our view all too soon ended, I shall be content to speak of him as a bishop,of his divine right, as I profoundly believe, to a place in the episcopate, and of the preeminent value of his distinctive and incomparable witness to the highest aim and purpose of that office.

Now and then men went bywithout any distinctive air of eventsnow and then a little group of children, a nursemaid and a woman going shopping, and so forth.

Here, indeed, were the red-brown eyes, the black hair, the distinctive aquiline profile of the great demagogue, but here was also something else that smote any premeditated scorn and rhetoric aside.