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Example sentences for "specify"

Lexicographically close words:
specificity; specifick; specifics; specified; specifies; specifying; specimen; specimens; speciosa; speciosum
  1. It may be, that the Saviour and the Apostles, in the course of their teachings, both oral and written, did specify sins to a far greater extent, than they are supposed to have done.

  2. I go on to account for the Apostles' omission to specify slavery.

  3. Why do these letters omit to specify the sin of slaveholding?

  4. We will specify some of the things which are often confounded with slavery.

  5. This is his conclusion, because they did not hesitate to specify and rebuke idolatry.

  6. But as it is doubtful whether he really wrote them or not, I think it unnecessary to specify them here.

  7. It would be needless to specify the preparations of antimony with which he was acquainted; scarcely one was unknown to him which, even at present, exists in the European Pharmacopœias.

  8. This chloride of gold is so violent a poison that it is remarkable that Glauber does not specify the dose that patients labouring under the diseases for which he recommends it ought to take.

  9. Canst thou specify by what means this restricted use of the power hath been enforced?

  10. Sometimes the word arto is used when we wish to specify that some -ado is an art.

  11. Ties libron would definitely specify it as the sister's book.

  12. Does Buddhism specify places or conditions of torment into which a bad man's Karma draws him on leaving this life?

  13. Specify the two main divisions of "meditation," i.

  14. In this message I will not enumerate them, but will specify only the justices of the Supreme Court.

  15. It will also specify the measures deemed essential for the national defense and to keep up and supply the requisite military force.

  16. It would be superfluous to specify inducements to a measure in which the character and interests of the United States are so obviously so deeply concerned, and which has received so explicit a sanction from your declaration.

  17. It is impossible however in a retrospect of Venice to specify one's happiest hours, though as one looks backward certain ineffaceable moments start here and there into vividness.

  18. For France, were I to specify my wishes, I should have too much.

  19. Computers) Defn: A pen-shaped pointing device used to specify the cursor position on a graphics tablet.

  20. Defn: To give as a particular, or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail.

  21. In this country I owe much to the librarians of public libraries and their assistants--too much to allow me to specify my obligations to individuals.

  22. All existences have their place in a systematic order of experience, and no conception of them can be either complete or determinate which fails to specify the causal context to which they belong.

  23. He is now careful to specify the more positive aspects of the problems with which it deals.

  24. The dynamical only specify rules whereby we can define the relation in which existences contingently given are connected.

  25. Thus the Persian word ubhul means Juniper berries, and in Welsh the word used means other fruits, and needs a qualifying term to specify the variety or kind.

  26. This part of the country, the natural home of the kauri pine, is what I here intend to specify under the title of Northern New Zealand.

  27. Among the friends of colonists at home in Britain, among those who talk most and know least of this land of the blest, I specify three classes.

  28. It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an adequate idea of the higher feelings of wonder, astonishment, and devotion, which fill and elevate the mind.

  29. I have said that most of the islands are in sight of each other: I may specify that Charles Island is fifty miles from the nearest part of Chatham Island, and thirty-three miles from the nearest part of Albemarle Island.

  30. But it is used in various other senses, more or less similar, and in order to make clear the exact logical sense, it is well to specify some of these.

  31. It can only help to specify a class when attached to the name of a higher genus.

  32. We shall come across instances of this in the next two lectures, and I need not specify them now.

  33. Care should be taken to specify whether the telescope used has an erect or inverted image.

  34. The Camp David Accords further specify that these negotiations will resolve the location of the respective boundaries.

  35. What should we think of the wife who told her husband she was unhappy, but did not specify the cause?

  36. We ought to specify our wants before the throne of grace.

  37. Characterize, specify the peculiarities of, set forth the character of.

  38. Describe, set forth the character of, specify the peculiarities of.

  39. The priests of Manetho's day wished animal worship to be considered a corruption of the original religion of their country, but they could not specify the time at which it had come in, and placed its origin in the mythical period of history.

  40. We can specify other features of the society connected with this type of household.

  41. It also requires that the members of the House of Representatives shall be elected every second year; but as originally adopted it does not specify when their term of office shall begin.

  42. True, the Constitution itself did not specify how this was to be done; but neither could one find in it any provision for enforcing the limitations on the authority of the states.

  43. I shall wish to forget them, I shall not specify or recall" (ibid.

  44. Washington, stated to the author (for publication) that under the regulations in force in 1846 Taylor was bound to specify the kind and amount of supplies that he wanted.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "specify" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    assign; baptize; bound; call; christen; circumscribe; cite; define; delimit; demarcate; denote; describe; designate; detail; determine; direct; document; dub; enclose; entitle; enumerate; figure; finger; fix; formulate; identify; indicate; instance; label; list; mark; mean; mention; name; nickname; nominate; particularize; prescribe; provide; recount; refer; register; select; signify; specialize; specify; spell; state; stigmatize; stipulate; style; substantiate; surround; symbolize; term; title