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tion by fear of consequences, or difficulty, risk, etc. Addison. Potent enemies tempt and deter us from our duty. Tillotson. My own face deters me from my glass. Prior.

To cleanse; to purge away, as foul or offending matter from the body, or from an ulcer.

A cleansing quality or power. De Foe.

Cleansing; purging. -- n.

To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind. Whately. The art of war . . . was greatly deteriorated. Southey.

The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.

Worse state or quality; inferiority. "The deteriority of the diet." [R.] Ray.

The act of deterring; also, that which deters. Boyle.

The quality of being determinable; determinableness. Coleridge.

Capable of being determined, definitely ascertained, decided upon, or brought to a conclusion. Not wholly determinable from the grammatical use of the words. South.

Capability of being determined; determinability.

Determinateness. [R.]

Serving to determine or limit; determinative.

limits; 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.