Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Individuate \In`di*vid"u*ate\, a. [See Individual.] Undivided. [Obs.]
Individuate \In`di*vid"u*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Individuated; p. pr. & vb. n. Individuating.] To distinguish from others of the species; to endow with individuality; to divide into individuals; to discriminate.
Syn: individualize.
The soul, as the prime individuating principle,
and the said reserved portion of matter as an
essential and radical part of the individuation,
shall . . . make up and restore the same
individual person.
--South.
Life is individuated into infinite numbers, that
have their distinct sense and pleasure.
--Dr. H.
More.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Medieval Latin individuatus, past participle of individuare, from Latin individuus (see individual). Related: Individuated; individuating.
Wiktionary
undivided v
To make, or cause to appear, individual.
WordNet
v. give individual character to
give individual shape or form to; "Language that individuates his memories"
Usage examples of "individuate".
If, then, the dimensive quantity of the bread or wine remains individuated according to the being it had before, in which it is preserved, for like reason the other accidents remain individuated according to the existence which they had before in the substance.
The other accidents, even as they were in the substance of the bread, were individuated by means of dimensive quantity, as stated above.
Men deprive themselves of the time to luxuriate in fantasies and desires that are personal and individuated and frequently turn to the generic visuals of porn to catalyze the process.
Indeed, there are no parts except within the field which identifies and individuates them"that is, differentiates and integrates them.
The intersubjective created worldspace, which itself allows the disclosure of individuated subjects and objects, was ditched in favor a mindless staring at the end result (mistaken as a pregiven), a mindless staring at the monological objects thus disclosed.
The principle of reality refers to the nature of phenomena that is present in their individuating and generic properties.
An individuating property of heat, for instance, is heat, and one of its generic properties is that it is impermanent.
His (early) archaeology of actual existence was a neostructuralist reworking of the traditional structuralist's analysis of possible types of experience, but it still placed emphasis on the exterior surfaces and structures of discursive formations and the transformation rules (of rarefication and exclusion) that individuated serious speech acts.
Not as easy as a bag with an individuated logo on it but better than unprinted plastic.