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distinguished
adj.
respected, honored; famous, well-known
distinguish
v.
mark as different; see as different; differentiate; discern, recognize
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Distinguishing
In law, to distinguish a case means to contrast the facts of the case before the court from the facts of a case of precedent where there is an apparent similarity. By successfully distinguishing a case, the holding or legal reasoning of the earlier case will either not apply or will be limited. There are two formal constraints on the later court: the factors in the ratio of the earlier case must be retained in formulating the ratio of the later case, and the ruling in the later case must still support the result reached in the precedent case.
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distinguished
Adjective
1. (used of persons) standing above others in character or attainment or reputation; "our distinguished professor"; "an eminent scholar"; "a great statesman"
(synonym) eminent, great
(similar) important, of import
2. used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person; "his distinguished bearing"; "the monarch's imposing presence"; "she reigned in magisterial beauty"
(synonym) imposing, magisterial
(similar) dignified
3. set apart from other such things
(similar) differentiated
distinguish
Verb
1. mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
(synonym) separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart
(hypernym) identify, place
(hyponym) know
(entail) compare
(derivation) differentiation, distinction
2. detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"
(synonym) recognize, recognise, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart
(hyponym) resolve
(entail) perceive, comprehend
3. be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense; "His modesty distinguishes him form his peers"
(synonym) mark, differentiate
(hypernym) qualify, characterize, characterise
(hyponym) characterize, characterise
(verb-group) mark
4. make conspicuous or noteworthy
(synonym) signalize, signalise
(hypernym) mark
(hyponym) singularize, singularise
5. identify as in botany or biology, for example
(synonym) identify, discover, key, key out, describe, name
(entail) classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate
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distinguished
příd.jm.
význačný
distinguish
v.
rozlišit; rozeznat; odlišit; rozpoznat; vyznamenat se
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distinguished
Przym.
wybitny; znakomity
distinguish
Czas.
rozróżniać; odróżniać; wyróżniać; znamionować; rozpoznawać; zauważać; wyróżniać się
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