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Flattened; made level or even.

o pluck up by the roots; to extirpate. [R.] While that the colter rusts That should deracinate such savagery. Shak.

The act of pulling up by the roots; eradication. [R.]

Designated; appointed; chosen. [R.] Sir G. Buck.

The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication.

Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.

One who designates.

Serving to designate; designative; indicating. [R.]

Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds (Desmognathæ), including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds.

Destined. [Obs.] "Destinate to hell." Foxe.

The act of destining or appointing.

not uncertain or arbitrary; fixed; established; definite. Quantity of words and a determinate number of feet. Dryden.

In a determinate manner; definitely; ascertainably. The principles of religion are already either determinately true or false, before you think of them. Tillotson.

State of being determinate.

Bringing to an end; termination; limit. A speedy determination of that war. Ludlow.

ving power to determine; limiting; shaping; directing; conclusive. Incidents . . . determinative of their course. I. Taylor. Determinative tables (Nat. Hist.), tables presenting the specific character of minerals, plants, etc., to assist in determining the species to which a specimen belongs.

One who determines. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

To explode with a sudden report; as, niter detonates with sulphur.

from Detonate. Detonating gas, a mixture of two volumes of hydrogen with one volume of oxygen, which explodes with a loud report upon ignition. -- Detonating powder, any powder or solid substance, as fulminate of mercury, which when struck, explodes with violence and a loud report. -- Detonating primer, a primer expl…

made by the instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances' as, the detonation of gun cotton.