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distincted

distincted is the simple past and past participle of distinct.

Meaning of distinct

Verb

distinct (third-person singular simple present distincts, present participle distincting, simple past and past participle distincted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To distinguish; to make a distinction.
    • Here every means is made use of to do away all distincting between federal and antifederal and I suspect with no very friendly design to the federal cause.1788, James McHenry, letter to George Washington, 27 July, in The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections 1788–1790, vol. 2, ed. Gordon DenBoer, University of Wisconsin Press, 1984, page...

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What is distincted the simple past and past participle of?
Distincted is the simple past and past participle of distinct.

Words near distincted in the dictionary

  1. distills
  2. distilment
  3. distilments
  4. distils
  5. distinct
  6. distincted
  7. distincter
  8. distinctest
  9. distinctified
  10. distinctifies
  11. distinctify

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