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set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line.

Having the same bounds; conterminous. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

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.

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

To drive out or away; to expel. They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion. Barrow.

Not determinate; not certain or fixed; indefinite; not precise; as, an indeterminate number of years. Paley. Indeterminate analysis (Math.), that branch of analysis which has for its object the solution of indeterminate problems. -- Indeterminate coefficients (Math.), coefficients arbitrarily assumed for convenience o…

Endless; as, interminate sleep. Chapman.

Interminable; interminate; endless; unending. [Obs.] Akenside.

Determined beforehand; as, the predeterminate counsel of God.

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

he greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated. Darwin.

To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road.

hich expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English.

ysics) See Attraction. -- Adhesive inflammation (Surg.), that kind of inflammation which terminates in the reunion of divided parts without suppuration. -- Adhesive plaster, a sticking; a plaster containing resin, wax, litharge, and olive oil.

Having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless. Kirwan.

Having the extremities terminate in the heads of eagles, lions, etc.; as, an anserated cross.

presses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.

Terminated abruptly by a small, distinct point, as a leaf.