disterminate
English
Etymology
From Latin disterminatus, past participle of disterminare (“to limit”). See terminate.
Adjective
disterminate (comparative more disterminate, superlative most disterminate)
- (obsolete) separated, divided
- 1624, Bishop Joseph Hall, “Introductory”, in The Peace-Maker, section 3: "On the Fundamental Points of Religion"; republished in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God Joseph Hall, D.D., volume 8, London: C. Whittingham, 1808, page 49:
- […] there is one and the same Church of Christ, however far disterminate in places, however segregated and infinitely severalized in persons, however differing in rites and circumstances of worship, however squaring in by-opinion.
References
- “disterminate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
Verb
distermināte
- second-person plural present active imperative of disterminō