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Capability of being determined; determinability.

Serving to determine or limit; determinative.

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

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.

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.

s employed to measure the amount of electricity transmitted by different bodies, or to determine their conducting power. Nichol.

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.

er, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls. Robynson (More's Utopia). To dig down, to undermine and cause to fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall. -- To dig from, out of, out, or up, to get out or obtain by digging; as, to dig coal from or out of a mine; to dig out fossils; to dig up a tree. The preposition is oft…

To make a judicial decision; to decide; to determine. [R.] Hales.

s in which evils or obstacles present themselves on every side, and it is difficult to determine what course to pursue; a vexatious alternative or predicament; a difficult choice or position. A strong dilemma in a desperate case! To act with infamy, or quit the place. Swift. Horns of a dilemma, alternatives, each of wh…

To determine the direction or course of; to cause to go on in a particular manner; to order in the way to a certain end; to regulate; to govern; as, to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army. I will direct their work in truth. Is. lxi. 8.

a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating a surface.

Power or authority to dispose of, determine the condition of, control, etc., especially in the phrase at, or in, the disposal of. The sole and absolute disposal of him an his concerns. South.

To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine. The knightly forms of combat to dispose. Dryden.