Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.