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Capability of being determined; determinability.

Determinateness. [R.]

Serving to determine or limit; determinative.

mits; 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.

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.

The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth; exhumation.

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

Separation by bounds. [Obs.] Hammond.

The act of embittering; also, that which embitters.

To interfere; to intermeddle. [Obs.] Chaucer.