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co-ˈterminous, a.
Also coterminous.
[Improperly formed: cf. contemporary.]
= conterminous. Freq. const. with.
1799J. Robertson Agric. Perth 59 These..fences are constructed and maintained at the mutual expence of co⁓terminous heritors. 1861J. G. Sheppard Fall Rome vi. 293 It was their policy to have a co-terminous kindred power on the opposite side of the Alps. 1864Trollope Small House at Allington I. i. 1 The estate of Dale of Allington had been coterminous with the parish of Allington for some hundreds of years. 1937R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory x. 159 Another major difference among ethnological historians that is not quite coterminous with the division into a right and left wing. 1940C. S. Lewis Probl. Pain iii. 28 There is kindness in Love: but Love and kindness are not coterminous. 1943A. M. Farrer Finite & Infinite xv. 180 If we take ‘will’ to be coterminous with the highest expressions of explicit rationality. 1966Economist 15 Jan. 176/1 What future Presidents would gain would be a House of Representatives elected with them..and coterminous with their term of office. |