For some time past he had been occupied in digesting a complete system on which his estate was to be managed for several succeeding years; specifying the cultivation of the several farms, with tables designating the rotations of the crops.
A special attorney is appointed by a deed called a power or letter of attorney, specifying the acts which he is authorized to do.
He shall hold an inquest unless a certificate by a medical practitionerspecifying the cause of death shall be forwarded.
The Archbishop proposes that all sentences beyond fifteen years should be irreversible, except by an Act of Parliament, specifying the names, offences, and previous committals of the prisoners pardoned.
We have known much inconvenience (and indeed loss) ensue from not specifying with the date of each letter the exact dwelling-place of the writer.
At the chief hotel in one of the New England cities, we saw a printed paper with directions in large type, pasted beside every bell-pull in the house; the directions specifying minutely the proper mode of bell-ringing.
In July, 1781, Mozart mentions three airs with variations, without specifyingthem more exactly.
I would not willingly deprive the improver of the glory belonging to his work, and I therefore take this opportunity of specifying these inserted songs as belonging to the Vienna edition and Mozart's composition.
Without specifying each particular day, I have preserved the following memorable things.
We recommend that deeds of emancipation be drawn up, and recorded in our respective county courts, specifying the slaves whom we are about to emancipate, and the age at which each is to be free.
To buy or receive any article from a slave, without the consent of his master, in writing, specifying the article, is a highly penal offense.
The legal tender provision of the notes would be necessary only as specifying the medium in which payment of debts should be made, to prevent misunderstanding, and for the protection of debtor and creditor alike.
The employer is bound to keep a register of deductions or payments, and to enter therein particulars of any fine made under the contract, specifying the amount and nature of the act or omission in respect of which the fine was imposed.
Prohibition of child labour under nine years of age and limitation of the working day to twelve in the twenty-four (without specifying the precise hour of beginning and closing) were the main provisions of this act.
We must add some distinguishing words, specifying what we assert to be prior, and to what it is prior (p.
We must answer by specifying the proximate matter; not fire and earth, the ultimate and elemental (b.
He tells us the like in specifying the seven Fallacies Extra Dictionem: that they also were often unnoticed, and required vigilant practice to see through and solve.
Much confusion has arisen from moralists speaking of good and evil absolutely, without specifying whether they meant good for the individual or for the society: more particularly in the writings of the ancient philosophers.
Moreover we ought to make answer by specifying the proximate causes (not the remote and ultimate).
The definition is the rational explanation arising out of these differences, and byspecifying the last it virtually includes all the preceding (a.
Another example, in like manner specifying both the merits and intercession of the departed saint, contains {252} expressions very unacceptable to many of those who are accustomed to make the Bible their study.
Was it expected when the moneys of the United States were directed to be placed in that bank that they would be put under the control of one man empowered to spend millions without rendering a voucher or specifying the object?
We explicitly disclaim all intention to imply that the several disabilities and cruelties we are specifying are of universal application.
What is worse, he has written on Materialism as did Lewes--without treating the term historically; and he has at times condemned Materialists in general without specifying any one man's teaching in detail.
Hazlitt records that a letter from Lamb to Miss Norris was in existence in which the writer gave "minute and humorous instructions for his own funeral, even specifying the number of nails which he desired to be inserted in his coffin.
The act of specifying or determining by a mark or limit; notation of limits.
The series of operations is terminated by specifying an initial or terminal condition.
This motion can be amended by specifying the number of the committee, or how they shall be appointed, or when they shall report, or by giving them any other instructions.
This body merely loaned the army and navy to the king, specifying the cases when the loan was allowable.
Improper methods of keeping books were a handicap, but the paternalistic nature of the government made itself felt, requiring business men to employ a good method of accounting, andspecifying the precise way in which they should do it.
A number of passages from this and other writers, specifying charms of various kinds, are given in Becker and Marquardt Rom.
St Paul’s motive in specifying him as the physician may not have been to distinguish him from any other bearing the same name, but to emphasize his own obligations to his medical knowledge.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "specifying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
