DETERMINATE

determinate. Determinate, v.t. to limit, fix, decide, settle, ob.

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De‐ter″mi‐nate (?), a. [[L. determinatus, p. p. of determinare. See Determine.]] 1. 1. Having defined limits; not uncertain or arbitrary; fixed; established; definite.
Quantity of words and a determinate number of feet. Dryden. 2. 2. Conclusive; decisive; positive.
The determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. Acts ii. 23. 3. 3. Determined or resolved upon.
My determinate voyage. Shak. 4. 4. Of determined purpose; resolute.
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.