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Determinate

adjective

Precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause. "A determinate number" , "Determinate variations in animals"

Not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex.

Supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement. Synonym: definitive. "A determinate answer to the problem"

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"Determinate" Quotes from Famous Books

... also be considered whether the quantity of each person's property may not be settled in a different manner from what he has done it in, by making it more determinate; for he says, that every one ought to have enough whereon to live moderately, as if any one had said to live well, which is the most comprehensive expression. Besides, a man may live moderately and miserably at the same time; he had therefore better have proposed, ...

— Politics - A Treatise on Government • Aristotle

... we employ in treating of human affairs, those of natural and unnatural are the least determinate in their meaning. Opposed to affectation, frowardness, or any other defect of the temper or character, the natural is an epithet of praise; but employed to specify a conduct which proceeds from the nature of man, can serve to distinguish ...

— An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition • Adam Ferguson, L.L.D.

... country is at the rate of ten pounds sterling per ton, the net profit has been less than what is realized in the United States, where the farmers obtain it at lesser prices. Nor has my government imposed any restrictions, duties, or determinate value on the exportation of guano, although it might and could do so with perfect propriety; because such action would have militated to the detriment of its own interests as the proprietor of the article. Its object has been to send it to those markets ...

— Guano - A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers • Solon Robinson

... complexion would often be insulted at the polls, by objections to their colour. I have heard it said, that Mr Gallatin sustained his motion to strike out on the latter ground. Whatever the motive, the disseverence is insufficient to wrap the interpretation of a word of such settled and determinate meaning as the one which remained. A legislative body speaks to the judiciary, only through its final act, and expresses its will in the words of it; and though their meaning may be influenced by the sense ...

— Diary in America, Series One • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)

... before Charles Stewart's attempt on Scotland, his having penetrated into that design precipitated their bloody purposes. His communications shaped the fluctuating purposes of Lady Bellingham into a most determinate and diabolical resolve, and she returned to London with the heart of an "Ate hot from hell," and the ...

— The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 - An Historical Novel • Jane West

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