Definition of "distinctio" []

• In Gregorian music: The pause or break by which melodies are divided into convenient phrases. In a verse of a psalm there are usually three such breaks: as (noun)
• Same as differentia, 2. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Et harum quidem rerum facilis est et expedita distinctio."
• "By the time of Suárez, these debates had crystallized around what he calls the “common distinction” (vulgaris distinctio) between a formal and an objective concept."
• "The following are generally rejected: formalism with the distinctio formalis, the spiritual matter of angels and of the soul, the view that the metaphysical essence of God consists in radical infinity, that the relationes trinitariae are not a perfection simpliciter simplex; that the Holy"