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Definition of Specifying
1. specify [v] - See also: specify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Specifying
Literary usage of Specifying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1904)
"A New specifying Method for Stress and Strain in an Elastic Solid. ... The method
for specifying stress and strain hitherto followed by all writers on ..."
2. A Practical Grammar: In which Words, Phrases, and Sentences are Classified by Stephen Watkins Clark (1866)
"specifying Adjectives should be so used as clearly to signify the real intention of
... The peculiar province of specifying Adjectives is to indicate the ..."
3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1856)
"... the amount of the premium received during the previous year, specifying what
amount was received for life insurance, for insurance against fire, ..."
4. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
"... and requiring the creditor forthwith to put the obligation in suit without
expressly specifying against whom the suit is to be brought, a suit against ..."
5. A Brief for the Trial of Civil Issues Before a Jury by Austin Abbott, William Charles Wermuth (1922)
"specifying evidence. — A motion to strike out evidence should be directed ...
specifying grounds. — And the motion should specify the grounds upon which it ..."
6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"... In the clear wholly unobstructed," is repelled 126 US by every provision in
the Act specifying the dimensions of the various parts of the structure. ..."
7. An Introduction to the Theory of Statistics by George Udny Yule (1919)
"Derivation of complex from simple relations by specifying the universe—6-6.
Consistence—7-10. Conditions of consistence for one and for two attributes—11-14 ..."
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