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adj
Distinct, clearly defined.
Quantity of words and a determinate number of feet.
[…] 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.
Fixed, determined, set, unvarying.
[…] hym have ye taken by the hondes of vnrightewes perſones / after he was delivered by the determinat counſell and fore knoweledge of God / and have crucified and ſlayne hym / […]
[S]he watched impatiently for the dawn of day, with that determinate purpoſe which generally inſures ſucceſs.
Of growth: ending once a genetically predetermined structure has formed.
Conclusive; decisive; positive.
Determined or resolved upon.
My determinate voyage.
Francesca saw the danger of allowing this apathy to increase, and would fain have laid down some determinate scheme, and sought some fixed home and employment, which must have brought its occupations, its habits, and, finally, its interests.
noun
A single state of a particular determinable attribute.
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.
verb
To bring to an end; to determine.
The sly, slow hours shall not determinate / The dateless limit of thy dear exile.