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▪ I. interminate, a. Now rare.|ɪnˈtɜːmɪnət|
[ad. L. intermināt-us, f. in- (in-3) + terminātus ended, terminate ppl. a. Cf. F. interminé(16th c.).]
1. That is without end or limit; endless, boundless, infinite.
1533Bellenden Livy iv. (1822) 386 Quhen Servilius had conquest, be thir wourdis, interminate loveing and favoure of all the pepill. 1615Chapman Odyss. vii. K v b, Within a thicket I reposde..and found..a sleepe interminate. a1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. iv. 159 The very same supineness and negligence..for interminate Ages. 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles iv. 142 Sin is interminate and infinite, but good terminate and finite, as the Pythagoreans hold. 1852Bp. Forbes Nicene Cr. 35 There is one Principle of all things..unbegotten, indestructible,..interminate.
b. Arith. interminate decimal, a fractional number that cannot be exactly expressed by tenths, tenths of tenths, and so on, but either repeats, as ·3. = 1/3, circulates, as ·1.42857. = 1/7, or continues without any definite order, as the decimal in the square root of 2, 3, 5 or other non-square number, in the value of π, etc.
1726Colson in Phil. Trans. XXXIV. 163 In this last Example the Numbers are what I call interminate, or Approximations only. 1866Arithm. Irish Nat. Schools 178 We cannot always obtain an exact quotient, when we divide one number by another:—in such a case, what is called an interminate, or..a recurring, or circulating decimal is produced.
†2. quasi-adv. Without end, always. Obs.
1556Abp. Parker Ps. cxxxi. 384 Be meeke: flee pryde..From this tyme forth interminate.
▪ II. † interminate, v. Obs. rare.
[f. ppl. stem of L. interminārī, f. inter between + minārī to threaten; cf. obs. F. interminer (Godef.).]
trans. To threaten, menace (a thing). Hence † interminated ppl. a.
a1631Donne Serm. xxxv. 347 In all those three Evangelists where this fearful Denunciation is interminated. a1656Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. (1660) 163 But enough, enough of these dolefull accents of these interminated judgments. |