SPEC'IFY, verb transitive To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish a thing from every other; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to specify the articles one wants to purchase. He has there given us an exact geography of Greece, where the countries and the uses of their soils are specified.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI