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Definitive   /dɪfˈɪnɪtɪv/   Listen
Definitive

adjective
1.
Clearly defined or formulated.  Synonym: unequivocal.
2.
Of recognized authority or excellence.  Synonyms: authoritative, classic, classical.  "Classical methods of navigation"
3.
Supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement.  Synonym: determinate.  "A determinate answer to the problem"



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... of the Hadriatic; and instead of two or three deputies from each province, the whole episcopal body was ordered to march. The Eastern council, after consuming four days in fierce and unavailing debate, separated without any definitive conclusion. The council of the West was protracted till the seventh month. Taurus, the Praetorian praefect was instructed not to dismiss the prelates till they should all be united in the same opinion; and his efforts were supported by ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon

... new State that incomparably rich woodland and prairie country extending from the thirty-first, degree of north latitude to the Great Lakes, and as far west as the Mississippi River. With these as its main provisions, the definitive treaty was signed on September 3, 1783, and ratified by Congress January ...
— Beginnings of the American People • Carl Lotus Becker

... plenipotentiary. The preliminary treaty was signed in London, October 1, 1801, and ratified a few days later on the part of Napoleon Bonaparte, then First Consul, and de facto ruler of France, by a special envoy from Paris—General Lauriston. The definitive treaty, by which the details of mutual concessions, etc., were finally arranged, was signed at Amiens, March 25, 1802. In England the peace was received with rapture: General Lauriston was drawn in triumph in his carriage through ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 3 • Madame D'Arblay

... the only rational form of government, the only one worthy of the nations. The universal Republic is inevitable in the natural course of progress. But has its hour struck in France? It is because I want the Republic that I want it to be durable and definitive. You are going to consult the nation, are ...
— The Memoirs of Victor Hugo • Victor Hugo

... the example of many of his brother officers, and in the autumn of 1760, a few weeks after the capitulation of Vaudreuil at Montreal, and the definitive establishment of British power in Canada, he resigned his position in the army, and settled on a fine domain in Montmagny, a short distance from Quebec, on the south shore of the St. Lawrence. Thither he summoned his family from Scotland. Roderick, his only son, was twelve ...
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