To modify so as to create a difference or distinction.
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A humble instance of Ablaut may be quoted which took place in the seventeenth century, when the word then was differentiated into the two forms then and than.
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1873, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongueā€ˇ[1], second edition, page 128: