▪ I. † termine, n. Obs.
Also termin.
[ad. L. termin-us boundary. Cf. OE. termen, OF. termine (12–14th c. in Godef.).]
= term n. in various senses: boundary, limit; end, extremity; limited time or period (in quot. 1609); in quot a 1625 = term n. 2.
| [c 1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 228 On þam teoðan stent se termen þæt ᵹemære si hwylc hit si.] |
| 1570 Levins Manip. 133/31 A Termin, bound, terminus. 1609 Heywood Brit. Troy vi. xlix, Our great Englands Ihoue..Hath at their suite granted a termine Truce. 1616 [see terminine]. a 1625 Fletcher Bloody Brother iv. ii, [The sun] hath his Termin In the degrees where she [the moon] is, and enjoys By that six dignities. |
▪ II. † ˈtermine, v. Obs.
Also 4–5 -yne, -yn, -ene.
[a. F. termine-r (in Wace, 12th c.), ad. L. termināre to terminate.]
1. trans. To determine, decide, settle. (With simple obj. or obj. cl.; also absol.)
| a 1325 MS. Rawl. B. 520 lf. 30 b, Þat alle þe quo warantes ben..iplaited ant itermined in Eyre of Iustises. 1382 Wyclif 1 Sam. xx. 33 Jonathas vnderstood, that it was fulli termyned of his fader, that Dauyd shulde be slayn. a 1400–50 Alexander 3979 Lat vs twa termyn þe taite be-twene vs alane. 1423 Rolls of Parlt. IV. 256 May inquere, here, and termine all the defautes. 1496 Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) iv. xxvii. 194/2 They wyll entermete them of euery cause..& termine euery cause by ther wytt. 1628 T. Spencer Logick 47 By the forme the essence is termined vnto some speciall kinde. 1705 W. Wall Hist. Inf. Bapt. (1845) I. 464, I have not termined anything by definitive authority as if I would be the author of any dogma. |
2. To state finally or definitely; to declare, affirm. (Const. as in 1.)
| c 1420 Lydg. Thebes iii. in Chaucer's Wks. (1561) 370/2 Thus selde is sen, the trouthe to termine That age and youth drawe by O line. 1426 ― De Guil. Pilgr. 22599 And off my ffyle to termyne, It is I-called Dyscyplyne. 1429 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 144 Folwe discrecioun Of thy fader,..plainly to termyne, Late hym by thy myrrour and thy guyde. c 1475 Harl. Contin. Higden (Rolls) VIII. 521 The fifthe Henry, of knyȝhtehode the lodesterre, Wyse and fulle manly, pleynly to termyne. |
3. trans. To cause to end in or at something; intr. to end in or at something: = terminate v. 3, 8.
| 1634 Bp. Hall Contempl., N.T. iv. v, How absurd had these guests been, if they had termined the thanks in the servitors; and had said, ‘We have it from you; whence ye had it, is no part of our care’. 1639 N. N. tr. Du Bosq's Compl. Woman i. 18 The other goodly qualities..all termine in Conversation, as in their Center. Ibid. ii. 38 All their travell termines at voluptuousnesse. 1668 Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. i. 26 Arising from the Cæcum, is termined in the Rectum. |
4. trans. To set bounds to, bound; to define, outline; usually in pass. to be bounded, have its limit or end: = terminate v. 6.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. ii. (1495) 862 Clere thynge well termined [Bodley MS. lf. 291/1 ytermyned] is the matere of colour. 1555 Eden Decades 269 Towarde the west & north it is termined with an vnknowen ende of landes & seas. 1625 N. Carpenter Geog. Del. i. v. (1635) 99 An imaginary point, conceiued in a magnitude deuoyde of all quantity, yet bounding and termining all Magnitudes. |
b. To confine or enclose within something.
| 1477 Norton Ord. Alch. v. in Ashm. Theat. Chem. Brit. (1652) 66 The shining of Gould is caused..Of pure and subtile Water termined full well. Ibid., For of a Mirrour the cause none other is, But moisture termined, as all Clerks gesse. 1631 J. Done Polydoron 51, I find in the most centrall and Terrestriall (that is) the Metalline bodies their life is termined, shut, imprisoned within themselues. |
5. To bring to an end; to end, finish, conclude: = terminate v. 4.
| 1390 Gower Conf. I. 168 Which to mi ladi stant enclined, And hath his love noght termined. c 1400 Laud Troy Bk. 9629 The trewes is passed and alle termened, And alle ben redy. c 1460 Towneley Myst. xxviii. 207 When he had termynd that fight he skypt outt of his wede. c 1500 Melusine xxii. 149 Before my dayes be termyned. a 1618 Sylvester New Hierusalem 75 For, Death is dead, Time termined, Corruption conquer'd clean. |
b. To form the end or termination of: cf. terminate v. 4 b.
| c 1532 G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 933 They [verbs] be all termined with the above sayd termination. 1552 Huloet, Poynte terminynge a sentence, comma. |
Hence † ˈtermining vbl. n.
| c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iv. lxiii. (1869) 206 Deth..which is þe ende of alle eerthliche thinges, and þe termininge. |