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adjective

Determinate adj.

Having defined limits; not uncertain or arbitrary; fixed; established; definite. "Quantity of words and a determinate number of feet."

Conclusive; decisive; positive. "The determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God."

Determined or resolved upon. (Obs.) "My determinate voyage."

Of determined purpose; resolute. (Obs.) "More determinate to do than skillful how to do."

Determinate inflorescence (Bot.), that in which the flowering commences with the terminal bud of a stem, which puts a limit to its growth; also called centrifugal inflorescence.

Determinate problem (Math.), a problem which admits of a limited number of solutions.

Determinate quantities, Determinate equations (Math.), those that are finite in the number of values or solutions, that is, in which the conditions of the problem or equation determine the number.

verb

Determinate v. t. To bring to an end; to determine. See Determine. (Obs.) "The sly, slow hours shall not determinate The dateless limit of thy dear exile."

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"Determinate" Quotes from Famous Books

... was a bachelor I had none but new stockings! I had a clean napkin every day on my plate. The restaurateur only fleeced me of a determinate sum. I have given up to you my beloved liberty! What have you done ...

— Petty Troubles of Married Life, Part First • Honore de Balzac

... never succeeded in gaining popular acceptance. Yet to support their pretensions there ought either to be some one fundamental principle or law, at the root of all morality, or if there be several, there should be a determinate order of precedence among them; and the one principle, or the rule for deciding between the various principles when they conflict, ought ...

— Utilitarianism • John Stuart Mill

... Revolutionary War. It was not without good reason, therefore, that the more cautious Scot addressed to him so many pathetic letters: "I beg of you to attend to these money matters. I cannot rest in my bed until they have some determinate form." Watt's inexperience in money matters caused apprehensions of ruin to arise whenever financial measures were discussed. He was at this time utterly wretched, and Mrs. Watt at last became anxious, long and bravely ...

— James Watt • Andrew Carnegie

... the morning and close before evening every day; but the hour of the expanding becomes earlier or later, at the length of the day increases or decreases. 3dly. AEquinoctial flowers, which open at a certain and exact hour of the day, and for the most part close at another determinate hour. ...

— The Botanic Garden. Part II. - Containing The Loves of the Plants. A Poem. - With Philosophical Notes. • Erasmus Darwin

... and to consume the same by fyre, and thairafter to salt it, in signe of a perpetuall desolatioun." We suspecting nothing suche creweltie, bot thinking that suche wordis myght eschape hir in choler, without purpose determinate, becaus sche was a woman sett a fyre by the complaintes of those hypocrytes who flocked unto hir, as ravennis to a carioun; We, (we say,) suspecting nothing suche beastlie crueltie, returned to our awin housses; ...

— The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) • John Knox

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