Dictionary: DE-TE'RI-O-RA-TING – DE-TEST'

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DE-TE'RI-O-RA-TING, ppr.

Becoming worse or inferior in quality.

DE-TE'RI-O-RA-TION, n.

A growing or making worse; the state of growing worse.

DE-TE-RI-OR'I-TY, n.

Worse state or quality; as deteriority of diet. – Ray.

DE-TER'MENT, n. [See Deter.]

The act of deterring; the cause of deterring; that which deters. – Boyle.

DE-TERM'IN-A-BLE, a. [See Determine.]

  1. That may be decided with certainty. – Boyle.
  2. That may end or be determined.

DE-TERM'IN-ATE, a. [L. determinatus.]

  1. Limited; fixed; definite; as, a determinate quantity of matter.
  2. Established; settled; positive; as, a determinate rule or order. The determinate counsel of God. – Acts ii.
  3. Decisive; conclusive; as, a determinate resolution or judgment.
  4. Resolved on. – Shak.
  5. Fixed; resolute. – Sidney.

DE-TERM'IN-ATE, v.t.

To limit. [Not used. See Determine.]

DE-TERM'IN-ATE-LY, adv.

  1. With certainty. The principles of religion are determinately true or false. – Tillotson.
  2. Resolutely; with fixed resolve. – Sidney.

DE-TERM'IN-ATE-NESS, n.

The state of being determinate, certain, or precise.

DE-TERM'IN-A'TION, n.

  1. The act of determining or deciding.
  2. Decision of a question in the mind; firm resolution; settled purpose; as, they have acquainted me with their determination.
  3. Judicial decision; the ending of a controversy or suit by the judgment of a court. Justice is promoted by a speedy determination of causes, civil and criminal.
  4. Absolute direction to a certain end. Remissness can by no means consist with a constant determination of the will to the greatest apparent good. Locke.
  5. An ending; a putting an end to; as, the determination of a will. – Blackstone.

DE-TERM'IN-A-TIVE, a.

  1. That uncontrollably directs to a certain end. The determinative power of a just cause. – Blackstone.
  2. Limiting; that limits or bounds; as, a word may be determinative and limit the subject. – Watts.

DE-TERM'IN-A-TOR, n.

One who determines. – Brown.

DE-TERM'INE, v.i.

  1. To resolve; to conclude; to come to a decision. He shall pay as the judges determine. – Ex. xxi. It is indifferent how the learned shall determine concerning this matter. – Anon.
  2. To end; to terminate. The danger determined by the death of the conspirators. Revolutions often determine in setting up tyranny at home, or in conquest from abroad. Some estates may determine, on future contingencies. – Blackstone.

DE-TERM'INE, v.t. [L. determino; de and termino, to bound; terminus, a boundary or limit; W. tervyn, an extremity, or limit; terv, outward, extreme; tervynu, to fix a bound, to limit, to determine; term, a term, extreme point; termiaw, to limit; Ir. teora, a border or limit; Gr. τερμα, τερμων. See Term.]

  1. To end; particularly, to end by the decision or conclusion of a cause, or of a doubtful or controverted point; applicable to the decisions of the mind, or to judicial decisions. We say, I had determined this question in my own mind; the court has determined the cause.
  2. To end and fix; to settle ultimately; as, this event determined his fate.
  3. To fix on; to settle or establish; as, to determine the proper season for planting seeds. God … hath determined the times before appointed. – Acts xvii.
  4. To end; to limit; to bound; to confine. Yonder hill determines our view. Knowledge is determined by the sight. – Bacon.
  5. To give a direction to; to influence the choice; that is, to limit to a particular purpose or direction; this circumstance determined him to the study of law. Also, to give a direction to material bodies in their course; as, impulse may determine a moving body to this or that point.
  6. To resolve, that is, to end or settle a point in the mind, as in definition first. I determined this with myself. – 2 Cor. ii. Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus. – Acts xx.
  7. To destroy. [Not used.] – Shak.
  8. To put an end to; as, to determine a will. – Blackstone.
  9. To settle or ascertain, as something uncertain. The character of the soul is determined by the character of its God. – J. Edwards.

DE-TERM'IN-ED, pp.

  1. Ended; concluded; decided; limited; fixed; settled; resolved; directed.
  2. adj. Having a firm or fixed purpose, as a determined man; or manifesting a firm resolution, as a determined countenance.

DE-TER'MIN-ED-LY, adv.

In a determined manner.

DE-TER'MIN-ER, n.

One who decides or determines.

DE-TERM'IN-ING, ppr.

Ending; deciding; fixing; setting; resolving; directing.

DE-TER-RA'TION, n. [L. de and terra, earth.]

The uncovering of anything which is buried or covered with earth; a taking from out of the earth. – Woodward.

DE-TER'RED, pp. [See Deter.]

Discouraged or prevented from proceeding or acting, by fear, difficulty or danger.

DE-TER'RING, ppr.

  1. Discouraging or influencing not to proceed or act, by fear, difficulty, danger, or prospect of evil.
  2. adj. Discouraging; frightening. – Ash.

DE-TER'SION, n. [L. detersus, detergo. See Deterge.]

The act of cleansing, as a sore. – Wiseman.

DE-TER'SIVE, a. [It. detersivo; Fr. detersif. See Deterge.]

Cleansing; having power to cleanse from offending matter.

DE-TER'SIVE, n.

A medicine which has the power of cleansing ulcers, or carrying off foul matter.

DE-TEST', v.t. [L. detestor; de and testor, to affirm or bear witness; It. detestare; Sp. detestar; Fr. detester. The primary sense of testor is to set, throw or thrust. To detest is to thrust away.]

To abhor; to abominate; to hate extremely; as, to detest crimes or meanness.