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Meanings of determinate in English
Precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause.
Usage of determinate in English
1
Therefore it seems that determinate words are not required in the sacraments.
2
There is no determinate way in which the subject can be viewed.
3
But the determinate counsel of heaven had otherwise resolved before the incarnation.
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Hence it is evident that incest is a determinate species of lust.
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Freed from such disturbances, the needle takes up a certain determinate position.
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Therefore rape is not a determinate species of lust distinct from seduction.
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For 'metal' substitute 'iron.' The object is to have one determinate standard.
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Objection 1: It seems that determinate words are not required in the sacraments.
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But the determinate being of a particular thing is from its own form.
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Now a determinate mode regards the thing of which it is the mode.
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Wherefore from determinate matter it produces something in a determinate species.
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It is not English, it is not sense, it conveys no determinate idea.
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So every natural body has a greater or smaller determinate quantity.
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It is, in fact, determinate, because the statute prescribes its limit.
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Objection 1: It seems that determinate things are not required for a sacrament.
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William Douglas went on with the same determinate and relentless calm.
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