[ad. L. termināt-us, pa. pple. of termināre: see next.] Terminated, in various senses: see the verb.
1. Limited, bounded; ended, brought to an end; having a definite limit or limits; of determinate form or magnitude. (In early quots. const. as pa. pple.) Now rare or Obs.
1432–50. trans. Higden (Rolls), I. 79. Inde is terminate from the este with the rysenge of the sonne, of the sowthe with the occean [etc.].
1639. G. Daniel, Ecclus. xli. 38. What if the vncertaine Date Of Mortalls in ten years be Terminate.
1645. Digby, Nat. Bodies, xxviii. § 1. 301. A terininate [ed. 1644 determinate] quantity or multitude of parts.
1750. trans. Leonardus’ Mirr. Stones, 35. Colour is the extremity of the perspicuous in a terminate body.
b. Math. Capable of being expressed in a finite number of terms; esp. of a decimal, not recurring or infinite; opp. to INTERMINATE 1 b. rare.
1882. Ogilvie, Terminate, a., capable of coming to an end; limited; bounded; as, a terminate decimal.
† 2. Determined, decided. Obs. rare. (as pa. pple.)
1432–50. trans. Higden (Rolls), VII. 275. The pope decrete that mater to be terminate afore the kynge of Ynglonde and bischoppes.
† 3. a. Directed to a specified object. Obs. rare.
1624. F. White, Repl. Fisher, 233. Their worship is terminate in the verie Image.
† b. ? Directed to some point; having a definite direction in space. Obs. rare.
1676. H. More, Remarks, xxiii. 37. I demand, if the mobility of water upwards be not as intrinsick to it as downwards…? for where the water is rightly placed, it has no terminate motion at all.
