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Webster 1913 Edition
Determinate
1.
Having defined limits; not uncertain or arbitrary; fixed; established; definite.
Quantity of words and a
determinate
number of feet. Dryden.
2.
Conclusive; decisive; positive.
The
determinate
counsel and foreknowledge of God. Acts ii. 23.
3.
Determined or resolved upon.
[Obs.]
My
determinate
voyage. Shakespeare
4.
Of determined purpose; resolute.
[Obs.]
More
determinate
to do than skillful how to do. Sir P. Sidney.
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.
De-ter′mi-nate
,Verb.
T.
To bring to an end; to determine. See
Determine
. [Obs.]
The sly, slow hours shall not
The dateless limit of thy dear exile.
determinate
The dateless limit of thy dear exile.
Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Determinate
DETERMINATE
,Adj.
1.
Limited; fixed; definite; as a determinate quantity of matter.2.
Established; settled; positive; as a determinate rule or order.The determinate counsel of God. Acts 2.
3.
Decisive; conclusive; as a determinate resolution or judgment.4.
Resolved on.5.
Fixed; resolute.DETERMINATE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
determinate
determinate
English
Adjective
determinate (not comparable)
- Distinct, clearly defined. [from 14th c.]
- Dryden
- Quantity of words and a determinate number of feet.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VIII, p. 122,
- […] on account of his responsibility to Norman and Marigold, and on account of his now determinate age, he considered himself ineligible for more dangerous service.
- Dryden
- Fixed, set, unvarying. [from 16th c.]
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts II:
- hym have ye taken by the hondes of unrightewes persones, after he was delivered by the determinat counsell and foreknowledge of God, and have crucified and slayne hym [...].
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts II:
- (biology) Of growth: ending once a genetically predetermined structure has formed.
- Conclusive; decisive; positive.
- Bible, Acts ii. 23
- The determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God.
- Bible, Acts ii. 23
- (obsolete) Determined or resolved upon.
- Shakespeare
- My determinate voyage.
- Shakespeare
- Of determined purpose; resolute.
- Sir Philip Sidney
- More determinate to do than skillful how to do.
- Sir Philip Sidney
Antonyms
- (limited): indeterminate, nondeterminate
- (biology): indeterminate
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
distinct, defined
Noun
determinate (plural determinates)
- (philosophy) A single state of a particular determinable attribute.
- 2007 September 5, David Denby, “Generating possibilities”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 2, DOI::
- And since being negatively-charged and being positively-charged are determinates of the same determinable, [D5] will not permit us to infer worlds where anything negatively-charged is also positively-charged.
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Verb
determinate (third-person singular simple present determinates, present participle determinating, simple past and past participle determinated)
- (obsolete) To bring to an end; to determine.
- Shakespeare
- The sly, slow hours shall not determinate / The dateless limit of thy dear exile.
- Shakespeare