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▪ I. determining, vbl. n.|dɪˈtɜːmɪnɪŋ|
[f. determine v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb determine; determination. (Now chiefly gerundial.)
1530Palsgr. 213/1 Determyning, terminance, determination. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Determinance..the determining or ending of a thing. 1607Hieron Wks. I. 117 The determining of all cases and questions in religion. 1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 22 The..inconsiderate determining of youths to the profession of learning. 1726Leoni tr. Alberti's Archit. I. 9 a, We must have regard to the..Use of every Edifice in the determining of its Situation. [1772C. Hutton Bridges 4 Their spans are still necessary for determining their figure.]
b. In academic use = determination 4.
1675(25 Feb.) in A. Wood Life & T. (O.H.S.) II. 309 Officers that have fees for determining. 1887[see determination 4].
▪ II. deˈtermining, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. That determines; esp. that decides, or leads to a decision; that fixes the course or issue.
1711Steele Spect. No. 158 ⁋3 A certain positive and determining manner in which you talk. 1842Grove Corr. Phys. Forces 45 The force of heat seems more a determining than a producing influence. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. ii. 110 The determining principle of their action. 1884Athenæum 23 Feb. 241/1 What was the determining motive?
b. Terminating, ending.
1893Daily News 21 Feb. 7/8 What is called the determining school year (that is the school year ended last before the 1st Jan. 1891).
†2. Performing the academic exercise of determination: determining bachelor, a bachelor of arts who had to determine in the Lenten disputations of the year. Obs. exc. in University Hist.
1649Order 26 Jan., in Wood Life & T. (O.H.S.) I. 149 That all determining Bachelaurs do meet at St. Marie's at 12 of the clock..and be conducted to the Schooles by the bedells. 1709Steele & Swift Tatler No. 71 ⁋8 Not a Senior Fellow [will] make a Pun, nor a determining Batchelor drink a Bumper. 1721Amherst Terræ Fil. No. 42 (1726) 232 The collectors..are chosen out of the determining batchelors by the two proctors. 1887A. Clark Registr. Univ. Oxf. II. i. 52 To arrange the determining bachelors into groups, so that each determining bachelor might dispute twice at least.
Hence determiningly adv.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 489 We dare not determiningly resolve, wee ought not boysterously to rush upon it. |