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undeˈterminate, a.
[un-1 7 and 5 b.]
†1. = indeterminate a. 2. Obs.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 768 Thus would not he admit, or leave any thing..infinit and undeterminate; but adorne nature with proportion, measure, and number. 1690Locke 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.
1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. Disc. vi. ii. §9 He, under an undeterminate reproof, intended those that were such. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 213 Any determinate conception does more vigorously..affect the mind than what is more general and undeterminate. 1736Butler Anal. ii. viii. 276 Owing to Half-views,..and to undeterminate Language.
†3. = indeterminate a. 5. Obs.
1668H. 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.
1767A. Young Farmer's Lett. to People 162 This undeterminate provision for the poor makes them depend on the parish for all. 1813T. Busby Lucretius I. i. Comm. p. xxii, The argument is derived from that which is undeterminate. 1863D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (ed. 2) I. iv. 128 Caverns..of undeterminate age. |