differentia

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Hoc argumentum praecipue ad juris consultos ecclesiasticos et civiles pertinet; et quamvis differentia sit inter jurisdictionem judicis civilis et ecclesiastici tamen judicium utriusque quatenus necessario pendet ab existentia conditionum physicalium in medici consilio situm est.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

Swift and Chatterton, with all their vast talents, wanted, we think, the fine differentia, and the genial element of real poetic genius.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

It has also been called by some the differentia numerica, and by Scotists the haecceitas.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

To quote the differentia of Sir Oliver Lodge: “A solid has volume and shape; a liquid has volume, but no shape; a gas has neither volume nor shape.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various

The attribute or attributes whereby a species is distinguished from other species of the same genus, is called its differentia or differentiæ.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William