interminate

From in- +‎ terminate.

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• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)mɪnət/

interminate (comparative more interminate, superlative most interminate)

1. Without end or limit; boundless, infinite, interminable.

   Synonym: interminated

   • 1614–1615, Homer, “The Seventh Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC, page 165, lines 395–397:

     Within a thicket I reposed; when round / I ruffled up fall'n leaves in heap; and found, / Let fall from heaven, a sleep interminate.

     The spelling has been modernized.

From Latin intermināt-, passive perfect participial stem of interminor (“I threaten, menace”).

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interminate (third-person singular simple present interminates, present participle interminating, simple past and past participle interminated)

1. (obsolete, rare) To menace; to threaten.
   • a. 1631, John Donne, The sermons:

     In all those three Euangelists, where this fearfull denunciation is interminated.

   • a. 1656, Bishop Joseph Hall, The Mourner in Sion:

     Will ye have the specialities of his threatened judgements? […] But enough, enough of these doleful accents of interminated judgments

   • 1726, Richard Fiddes, D. D., The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, 2nd edition, London, page 257:

     The Duke […] was so irritated at the Summons, and the consequent Charge for his Attendance, that some unguarded Expressions escaped from him, highly reflecting upon the Cardinal, and interminating certain Effects of his Displeasure against him.

• minatory

• “interminate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

interminate

1. feminine plural of interminato

intermināte

1. vocative masculine singular of interminātus