† 1. = INDETERMINATE a. 2. Obs.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 768. Thus would not he admit, or leave any thing … infinit and undeterminate; but adorne nature with proportion, measure, and number.
1690. Locke, Hum. Und., II. xvii. § 10. As if this line of number were extended both ways to an unconceivable, undeterminate, and infinite length.
† 2. = INDETERMINATE a. 2 b. Obs.
1649. Jer. Taylor, Gt. Exemp., Disc. vi. II. § 9. He, under an undeterminate reproof, intended those that were such.
1664. H. More, Myst. Iniq., 213. Any determinate conception does more vigorously … affect the mind than what is more general and undeterminate.
1736. Butler, Anal., II. viii. 276. Owing to Half-views,… and to undeterminate Language.
† 3. = INDETERMINATE a. 5. Obs.
1668. H. More, Div. Dial., I. xx. (1713), 42. To know a free Agent, which is undeterminate to either part, to be so undeterminate, and that he may choose which part he will.
4. = INDETERMINATE a. 3 and 4. Now rare.
1767. A. Young, Farmer’s Lett. to People, 162. This undeterminate provision for the poor makes them depend on the parish for all.
1813. T. Busby, Lucretius, I. I. Comm. p. xxii. The argument is derived from that which is undeterminate.
1863. D. Wilson, Preh. Ann. (ed. 2), I. iv. 128. Caverns … of undeterminate age.
