qualificatory

Updated: May 1, 2025

Another method of distinguishing was to include the former in the Kwobetsu and the latter in the Shimbetsu distinctions which will be more fully explained hereafter and after apotheosis the members of these two classes became respectively "deities of heaven" and "deities of earth," a distinction possessing historical rather than qualificatory force.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era