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An ancient form of test to determine guilt or innocence, by appealing to a supernatural decision, -- once common in Europe, and still practiced in the East and by savage tribes.

The act or process of orientating; determination of the points of the compass, or the east point, in taking bearings.

onsecutive points of the latter through which the former passes suffices for the complete determination of the former curve. Brande & C.

To rule over; to govern or determine by superior authority.

One who, or that which, controls, governs, or determines. Sir P. Sidney.

commissions directed to judges of assize about to hold court, directing them to hear and determine cases brought before them. In the U.S. the phrase is used to designate certain criminal courts.

Pertaining to, or used for, the determination of the amount of ozone; of or relating to ozonometry.

The measurement or determination of the quantity of ozone.

nscriptions and modes of writing; the art or science of deciphering ancient writings, and determining their origin, period, etc., from external characters; diplomatics.

An instrument for measuring angles for determining elevations, distances, etc.

The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane; also, the fundamental axial ratio for a given species.

The separation and determination of alloys; esp., the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.

12. "Provided no indirect act pass upon our prayers to define them." Jer. Taylor. (b) To determine concerning; to give judgment or sentence upon. "We may not pass upon his life." Shak. -- To pass off, to go away; to cease; to disappear; as, an agitation passes off. -- To pass over, to go from one side or end to the…

ogy; an investigator in pathology; as, the pathologist of a hospital, whose duty it is to determine the causes of the diseases.

Firmly determined; unawed. [Poetic] Shak. Peremptory challenge (Law) See under Challenge. -- Peremptory mandamus, a final and absolute mandamus. -- Peremptory plea, a plea by a defendant tending to impeach the plaintiff's right of action; a plea in bar.

An instrument for determining the extent and shape of the field of vision.

A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the…

The arrangement of any determinate number of things, as units, objects, letters, etc., in all possible orders, one after the other; -- called also alternation. Cf. Combination, n., 4.

or gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by presenting sufficient motives. Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. Acts xxvi. 28. We will persuade him, be it possible. Shak.

easons offered, or by anything that moves the mind or passions, or inclines the will to a determination. For thou hast all the arts of fine persuasion. Otway.