verb

• To make distinct or separate from what is common, particularly:
  "Firſt laſh the Great-ones ; but, if thou be wiſe, / In generall, and doe not ſpeciallize : / Yet, if thou doe, ſo wiſely let it be, / None may except but thoſe that faulty be."
• To make distinct or separate from what is common, particularly:
  "Our Sauiour specialising and nominating the places in which these false prophets should teach his presence to be."
• To make distinct or separate from what is common, particularly:
  "He is at moſt a confuſed and wild Chriſtian, not ſpecialized by any form, but capable of all."
• To make distinct or separate from what is common, particularly:
  "In the lowest orders of being, we find these functions very much blended together, and several of them apparently performed by one simple apparatus ; but in proportion as we rise in the scale, we perceive that they are specialized, or separated from each other, and that a complicated set of organs is appropriated to each of them."