disterminate

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin disterminatus, past participle of disterminare (to limit). See terminate.

Adjective

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disterminate (comparative more disterminate, superlative most disterminate)

  1. (obsolete) separated by bounds
    • 1624, Bishop Joseph Hall, “Introductory”, in The Peace-Maker, section 3: "On the Fundamental Points of Religion"; republished in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God Joseph Hall, D.D., volume 8, London: C. Whittingham, 1808, page 49:
      [] there is one and the same Church of Christ, however far disterminate in places, however segregated and infinitely severalized in persons, however differing in rites and circumstances of worship, however squaring in by-opinion.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for disterminate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

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Verb

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distermināte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of disterminō