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ating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities.

Of or pertaining to termination; forming a termination.

Bringing to an end; termination; limit. A speedy determination of that war. Ludlow.

Separation by bounds. [Obs.] Hammond.

The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.

Want of determination; an unsettled or wavering state, as of the mind. Jer. Taylor.

A menace or threat. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will. Hammond.

Determination by one's self; or, determination of one's acts or states without the necessitating force of motives; -- applied to the voluntary or activity.

Indetermination. Sir M. Hale.

The result of public deliberation; the decision or determination of a legislative body, council, court of justice, etc.; a decree, edit, law, judgment, resolve, award; as, an act of Parliament, or of Congress.

A sharpening; termination in a sharp point; a tapering point. Bp. Pearson.

A deliberate determination by the judicial power; a judicial decision or sentence. "An adjudication in favor of natural rights." Burke.

the characteristics of the species or other groups are arranged so as to facilitate the determination of their names.

A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.

Any one of the thicker and denser of the deep fasciæ which cover, invest, and the terminations and attachments of, many muscles. They often differ from tendons only in being flat and thin. See Fascia.

ting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projecting from the east end. In early churches the Eastern apse was occupied by seats for the bishop and clergy. Hence:

Of or pertaining to the apse of a church; as, the apsidal termination of the chancel.

Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination. [Archaic]

Determination; decision; arbitration. The arbitrament of time. Everett. Gladly at this moment would MacIvor have put their quarrel to personal arbitrament. Sir W. Scott.