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Change for the worse; deterioration; morbid perversion.

waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation. Unto the end of the war desolations are determined. Dan. ix. 26.

Determined by destiny; fated. Chaucer.

Determined by destiny; fated. [Obs.] "The order destinal." Chaucer.

Purpose for which anything is destined; predetermined end, object, or use; ultimate design.

To determine the future condition or application of; to set apart by design for a future use or purpose; to fix, as by destiny or by an authoritative decree; to doom; to ordain or preordain; to appoint; -- often with the remoter object preceded by to or for. We are decreed, Reserved, and destined to eternal woe. Milton…

That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom. Thither he Will come to know his destiny. Shak. No man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny. Bryant.

To do injury to; to hurt. [Archaic] Other might be determined thereby. Fuller.

Scientific determination of any kind; the concise description of characterization of a species.

e is employed to measure the amount of electricity transmitted by different bodies, or to determine their conducting power. Nichol.

re plates having numbers or letters upon them. These plates must be adjusted in a certain determined way before the lock can be operated. -- Dial plate, the plane or disk of a dial or timepiece on which lines and figures for indicating the time are placed.

in which the bearings of the courses, or the angles which they make with each other, are determined by means of the circumferentor.

Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n. Dice coal, a kind of coal easily splitting into cubical fragments. Brande & C.

That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance. Such is the die of war. Spenser.

h relates to diet or food; rules for diet. To suppose that the whole of dietetics lies in determining whether or not bread is more nutritive than potatoes. H. Spencer.

describing a thing, by giving its different, or specific difference; exact definition or determination.

Definitive; determinate; final. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

To make a judicial decision; to decide; to determine. [R.] Hales.

ings in which evils or obstacles present themselves on every side, and it is difficult to determine what course to pursue; a vexatious alternative or predicament; a difficult choice or position. A strong dilemma in a desperate case! To act with infamy, or quit the place. Swift. Horns of a dilemma, alternatives, each of…

e manifoldness with which the fundamental units of time, length, and mass are involved in determining the units of other physical quantities. Thus, since the unit of velocity varies directly as the unit of length and inversely as the unit of time, the dimensions of velocity are said to be length ÷ time; the dimensions…