determinate
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The French Revolution then dynamited Europe’s old order and dynamized society as a collective organism, evolving in a “quasi-biological and determinate way.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Prisoners on standard determinate sentences - a fixed-length prison term - could move to the post-custody stage after serving one-third of their sentence providing they behave well.
From BBC ● May 22, 2025
Scotland's prisons currently house 2,037 prisoners serving determinate sentences of four to 10 years, and 465 on sentences of 10 years or more.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2024
I would be excited to add a larger system that accommodates larger plants like compact dwarf or determinate tomatoes.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2023
Substantial Forms, Occult Qualities, Intentional Species, Idiosyncrasies, Sympathies and Antipathies of Things, are exploded...because they are only empty Sounds, Words whereof no Man can form a certain and determinate Idea.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
That's precisely what them men war determinated not ter be!
From The Young Mountaineers Short Stories by Malcolm Fraser
Mind is the determinating principle; matter is indeterminate and indefinite.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
The New Englanders were anxious to buy the lands, but were earnest in their determinating to exclude slavery from the new territory.
From The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 by Theodore Roosevelt
Its character is such that it becomes the determinating factor of human adaptations to the conditions imposed by the environment, by envisaging the enduring and efficacious elements among these conditions as persons.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
The sulphuric compounds are related and yet opposed to the growth determinating phosphoric compounds.
From Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration by Louis Dechmann
The extent and the intensity of production have been and remain the determinating factors in the extent and kind of the means of production.
From Freeland A Social Anticipation by Theodor Hertzka
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