a. [f. L. fīni-s + -FIC.] Putting a limit to; limiting; in quot. absol. or quasi-sb.
1830. Coleridge, in Lit. Rem. (1836), III. 2. The eternally self-affirmant self-affirmed … whose definition is, the essential finific in the form of the infinite.
a. [f. L. fīni-s + -FIC.] Putting a limit to; limiting; in quot. absol. or quasi-sb.
1830. Coleridge, in Lit. Rem. (1836), III. 2. The eternally self-affirmant self-affirmed … whose definition is, the essential finific in the form of the infinite.
