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Determined or resolved upon. [Obs.] My determinate voyage. Shak.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

extension; dissemination; circulation; dispersion. A diffusion of knowledge which has undermined superstition. Burke.

Sullenly obstinate; obstinately determined or persistent; as, dogged resolution; dogged work.

Having different minds at different times; unsettled; undetermined. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. Jas. i. 8.

be undecided as to the truth of the negative or the affirmative proposition; to b e undetermined. Even in matters divine, concerning some things, we may lawfully doubt, and suspend our judgment. Hooker. To try your love and make you doubt of mine. Dryden.

Not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating in belief; also used, metaphorically, of the body when its action is affected by such a state of mind; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure. Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful. Shak. With doubtful feet an…

Doubtful or not settled in opinion; being in doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined. "Dubious policy." Sir T. Scott. A dubious, agitated state of mind. Thackeray.

The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education. To prepare us…

The act or condition of hanging in equipoise; not inclined or determined either way. South.

The degree of combining power as determined by relative weight. See Equivalent, n., 2. [R.]

by weight of an element which possesses the same chemical value as other elements, as determined by actual experiment and reference to the same standard. Specifically:

To clothe with, or as with, ermine. The snows that have ermined it in the winter. Lowell.

illustration of a rule or precept, especially a problem to be solved, or a case to be determined, as an exercise in the application of the rules of any study or branch of science; as, in trigonometry and grammar, the principles and rules are illustrated by examples.