Dictionary entry

Contradistinguish

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Con′tra‐dis‐tin″guish (?; 144), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Contradistinguished (#); p. pr. & vb. n.Contradistinguishing.] To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities.

These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished.

Locke.