The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contradistinguish \Con`tra*dis*tin"guish\ (?; 144), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Contradistinguished; p. pr. & vb. n. Contradistinguishing.] To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities.
These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as
contradistinguished.
--Locke.
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To distinguish things by contrasting their different qualities.
WordNet
v. distinguish by contrasting qualities
Usage examples of "contradistinguish".
We hear a great deal about romanticism as contradistinguished from classicism, but it is seldom that we have the line of demarcation between the two tendencies or schools drawn for us.
He calls it a real sea, as contradistinguished from the Mediterranean, which, as he says, is not a real sea (or ocean) but a landlocked body of water, like a harbor.
Those who know anything about the matter are aware that every writer, from Epicurus to Bentham, who maintained the theory of utility, meant by it, not something to be contradistinguished from pleasure, but pleasure itself, together with exemption from pain.
It has always been evident that all cases of justice are also cases of expediency: the difference is in the peculiar sentiment which attaches to the former, as contradistinguished from the latter.
The rights of women, as contradistinguished from the wrongs of women, has perhaps been the most precious of the legacies left to us by the feudal ages.
Thus the tumbler lock— which consists in the use of moveable impediments acted on by the proper key only, as contradistinguished from the ordinary ward locks, where the impediments are fixed— appears to have been well known to the ancient Egyptians, the representation of such a lock being found sculptured among the bas-reliefs which decorate the great temple at Karnak.