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To terminate. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A determining; as, in oyer and terminer. See Oyer.

The doctrine held by the Terminists.

One of a class of theologians who maintain that God has fixed a certain term for the probation of individual persons, during which period, and no longer, they have the offer to grace. Murdock.

Of or pertaining to terminology. -- Ter`mi*no*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms; as, the terminology of chemistry. The barbarous effect produced by a German structure of sentence, and a terminology altogether new. De Quincey.

he Roman divinity who presided over boundaries, whose statue was properly a short pillar terminating in the bust of a man, woman, satyr, or the like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in the ground on a boundary line.

the purpose of causing to fall or be overthrown; to form a mine under; to sap; as, to undermine a wall. A vast rock undermined from one end to the other, and a highway running through it. Addison.

One who undermines.

To serve, or minister to, in a subordinate relation. [Obs.] Wyclif.

A subordinate or inferior ministry. Jer. Taylor.

Not determinable; indeterminable. Locke.

Nor determinate; not settled or certain; indeterminate. South. -- Un`de*ter"mi*nate*ness, n. Dr. H. More.

Indetermination. Sir M. Hale.

nimal, in general. [Obs.] Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and vermin, and worms, and fowls. Acts x. 12. (Geneva Bible). This crocodile is a mischievous fourfooted beast, a dangerous vermin, used to both elements. Holland.

To breed vermin.

The generation or breeding of vermin. Derham.

Resembling vermin; in the manner of vermin. [Obs.] Gauden.

Tending to breed vermin; infested by vermin. Some . . . verminous disposition of the body. Harvey.

In a verminous manner.