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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Specificate, v. [e.m.E. specificate (1620), med. L. specificat-, ppl. stem of specificāre; Specify v.] tr. a. To distinguish as belonging to a particular group, kind, etc., to determine specifically. b. To confine or limit to, apply specifically to. —a. 1637 Gillespie Eng. Pop. Ceremonies iv iii 7.
An action is said to be specificated by its object, and individuated by its circumstances 1687 Shields Hind let Loose 384.
The concrete does specificate the abstract in actuating it, as a magistrate, in his exercising government, makes his power to be magistracy —b. 1685-8 Renwick Serm. 446.
We must understand that prayer to be specificated to that all, for whom he gave himself a ransom … which was not … for all and every individual man … but only for some of all kinds and degrees of men 1685-8 Renwick Serm. 450.
Some have taken the oath of allegiance, … which specificates our allegiance to rulers only 1685-8 Renwick Serm. 450.
Say, it were an oath of lawful allegiance, if specificated to a direct object, and so might be lawfully taken