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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Determinate \De*ter"mi*nate\, v. t.
     To bring to an end; to determine. See {Determine}. [Obs.]
  
           The sly, slow hours shall not determinate The dateless
           limit of thy dear exile.                 --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Determinate \De*ter"mi*nate\, a. [L. determinatus, p. p. of
     determinare. See {Determine}.]
     1. Having defined limits; not uncertain or arbitrary; fixed;
        established; definite.
  
              Quantity of words and a determinate number of feet.
                                                    --Dryden.
  
     2. Conclusive; decisive; positive.
  
              The determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God.
                                                    --Acts ii. 23.
  
     3. Determined or resolved upon. [Obs.]
  
              My determinate voyage.                --Shak.
  
     4. Of determined purpose; resolute. [Obs.]
  
              More determinate to do than skillful how to do.
                                                    --Sir P.
                                                    Sidney.
  
     {Determinate inflorescence} (Bot.), that in which the
        flowering commences with the terminal bud of a stem, which
        puts a limit to its growth; -- also called {centrifugal
        inflorescence}.
  
     {Determinate problem} (Math.), a problem which admits of a
        limited number of solutions.
  
     {Determinate quantities}, {Determinate equations} (Math.),
        those that are finite in the number of values or
        solutions, that is, in which the conditions of the problem
        or equation determine the number.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  determinate
       adj 1: precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed
              by rule or by a specific and constant cause; "a
              determinate distance"; "a determinate number";
              "determinate variations in animals" [ant: {indeterminate}]
       2: not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex;
          "determinate growth" [ant: {indeterminate}]
       3: supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement; "a
          definitive verdict"; "a determinate answer to the problem"
          [syn: {definitive}]

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