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The act of determining, or the state of being determined.

Having 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 fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate. [God] hath determined the times before appointed. Acts xvii. 26.

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

In a determined manner; with determination.

One who, or that which, determines or decides.

The doctrine that the will is not free, but is inevitably and invincibly determined by motives. Its superior suitability to produce courage, as contrasted with scientific physical determinism, is obvious. F. P. Cobbe.

One who believes in determinism. Also adj.; as, determinist theories.

Separated by bounds. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Separation by bounds. [Obs.] Hammond.

To germinate. [Obs.]

Interminable. [Obs.] Skelton.

To drive out or away; to expel. They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion. Barrow.

The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.

One who, or that which, exterminates. Buckle.

Of or pertaining to extermination; tending to exterminate. "Exterminatory war." Burke.

To exterminate; to destroy. [Obs.] Shak.

To determine or decree beforehand. Bp. Hopkins.

Pertaining or belonging to a germ; as, the germinal vesicle. Germinal layers (Biol.), the two layers of cells, the ectoblast and entoblast, which form respectively the outer covering and inner wall of the gastrula. A third layer of cells, the mesoblast, which is formed later and lies between these two, is sometimes inc…