All 3 Uses of
distinct
in
Othello, the Moor of Venice
- As well to see the vessel that's come in As to throw out our eyes for brave Othello, Even till we make the main and the aerial blue An indistinct regard.†
Scene 2.1 *indistinct = not clear or easily identifiablestandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indistinct means not and reverses the meaning of distinct. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore.†
Scene 2.3distinctly = in a manner that is clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate
- one may smell in such a will most rank, Foul disproportion, thoughts unnatural:—But pardon me: I do not in position Distinctly speak of her; though I may fear, Her will, recoiling to her better judgement, May fall to match you with her country forms, And happily repent.†
Scene 3.3
Definition:
clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate