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deˈterminately, adv.
[f. determinate a. + -ly2.]
In a determinate manner.
1. By way of final decision; conclusively, finally.
1509Fisher Fun. Serm. C'tess Richmond Wks. (1876) 293 She sholde the morowe after make answer of her mynde determynatly. 1669Woodhead St. Teresa i. xxxv. (1671) 260, I did never determinately conclude. 1729Butler Serm. Wks. 1874 II. 24 Conscience..pronounces determinately some actions to be in themselves just, right, good. 1736― Anal. ii. vii. 270 Those Persons..insist upon it as determinately conclusive. 1792R. Burke in Burke's Corr. (1844) III. 489 The ministers had made up their minds determinately to a strict neutrality.
2. Definitely, distinctly, exactly, precisely.
1529More Comf. agst. Trib. iii. Wks. 1225/2 Yet can not the vse of them lightly stand indifferent, but determinately must either be good or bad. 1551T. Wilson Logike (1580) 21 b, Wordes, whiche..determinatly doe betoken some one certaine thyng. a1653Gouge Comm. Heb. xiii. 8, 1. Indefinitely, time after time. 2. Determinatly, to the end of the world. 1759Warner in Phil. Trans. LI. 307 A discovery of the fact, could it be determinately made, would prove of very little consequence. 1830G. R. Gleig Country Curate I. xiv. 274, I cannot pronounce the night..the most determinately miserable which it has been my lot to spend.
b. With a definite purpose, purposely.
1862Darwin Fertil. Orchids v. 203 All these parts seemed determinately contrived that the plant should never be fertilised.
3. With settled purpose; resolutely, determinedly; with determination.
1556J. Heywood Spider & F. xiv. 69 When he sawe..The spider, thus bent determinately, He thought it foly him to contrary. 1653H. More Antid. Ath. iii. xvi. (1712) 140 Observed to fight determinately over such and such a City. 1724Swift Wood's Execution, Determinately bent to take revenge upon him. 1755Fox in H. Walpole Mem. Geo. II (1847) II. App. 386 The Duke of Devonshire is..determinately against it. 1860Froude Hist. Eng. V. 69 A servant determinately idle. 1881E. Coxon Basil Pl. II. 176 For all her weakness, she spoke determinately. |