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Determinately

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de·ter·mi·nate  (d-tûrm-nt)
adj.
1. Precisely limited or defined; definite: a determinate number; a determinate distance.
2. Conclusively settled; final.
3. Firm in purpose; resolute.
4. Botany
a. Terminating in a flower and blooming in a sequence beginning with the uppermost or central flower; cymose: a determinate inflorescence.
b. Not continuing indefinitely at the tip of an axis: determinate growth.
[Middle English, from Latin dtermintus, past participle of dterminre, to determine; see determine.]
de·termi·nate·ly adv.
de·termi·nate·ness n.


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Yet when one of the two contraries is a constitutive property of the subject, as it is a constitutive property of fire to be hot, of snow to be white, it is necessary determinately that one of the two contraries, not one or the other, should be present in the subject; for fire cannot be cold, or snow black.
The Categories by Aristotle View in context
But I cut short his appeal, and repulsed him so determinately, so decidedly, and with such a mixture of scornful indignation, tempered with cool, dispassionate sorrow and pity for his benighted mind, that he withdrew, astonished, mortified, and discomforted; and, a few days after, I heard that he had departed for London.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte, Anne View in context
Wilson," said George, coming up and sitting himself determinately down in front of him; "look at me, now.
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher View in context
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