differentia

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The qualities which this general differentia has developed in French may now be enumerated.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George

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 formation of such rules, resting as it does on the power of framing and applying general conceptions, is the prime differentia of human morality from animal behavior.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra

Being without a serviceable differentia, he is unable to mark off the field of psychology from contiguous territory.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

Musset, who was very much of a free-lance in the contest, maintained indeed that the differentia of the Romantic was the copious use of this part of speech.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various