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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 p…

Resolutely; unchangeably. Being determinately . . . bent to marry. Sir P. Sidney.

The quality of mind reaches definite conclusions; decision of character; resoluteness. He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. Emerson.

Decided; resolute. "Adetermined foe."" Sparks.

One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power. Invested with the authority of a dictator, nay, of a pope, over our language. Macaulay.

Pertaining or suited to a dictator; absolute. Military powers quite dictatorial. W. Irving.

The office, or the term of office, of a dictator; hence, absolute power.

That which dilutes.

The act of diluting, or the state of being diluted. Arbuthnot.

e of gradation used in finding the different points for drawing the spiral curve of the volute. Gwilt. -- Diminishing rule (Arch.), a board cut with a concave edge, for fixing the entasis and curvature of a shaft. -- Diminishing stile (Arch.), a stile which is narrower in one part than in another, as in many glazed d…

ip the colors (Naut.), to lower the colors and return them to place; -- a form of naval salute.

Without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms. No man hath hitherto been so impious as plainly and directly to condemn prayer. Hooker.

Absolute. Diriment impediment (R. C. Ch.), an impediment that nullifies marriage.

noting and marking differences. To make an anxious discrimination between the miracle absolute and providential. Trench.

Freedom from engrossing occupation; leisure. Disengagement is absolutely necessary to enjoyment. Bp. Butler.

of, control, etc., especially in the phrase at, or in, the disposal of. The sole and absolute disposal of him an his concerns. South.

One who, or that which, disposes; a regulator; a director; a bestower. Absolute lord and disposer of all things. Barrow.

To be extravagant, wasteful, or dissolute in the pursuit of pleasure; to engage in dissipation.

Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate. A life irregular and dissipated. Johnson.

A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in vicious indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness. To reclaim the spendthrift from his dissipation and extravagance. P. Henry.