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- adjective Obsolete form of
determined . - verb obsolete Simple past tense and past participle of
determine .
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Examples
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I have determin'd on nothing, only to meet all the occurrences of life with as much resignation as possible.
Letter 136 2009
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If they could possibly arrive at Bury on Tuesday next I should feel happy, as I have here a scene of sickness and trouble which I am determin'd to relieve at all events.
Letter 150 2009
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I would not thus intrude now, had I not determin'd to live in the Country and actually sent my Goods and Wife and five Children to Shefford in Bedfordshire for I find the expenses of London housekeeping too heavy for my precarious income, and have besides by no means good health.
Letter 274 2009
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In consideration of circumstances which, I understand he made you acquainted with, namely being oblidge'd to send part of your bounty to the family, he ran short, and determin'd to take a conditional walk home, and give a Spring dressing to his Garden.
Letter 260 2009
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However I am determin'd to leap the fence and try to find what she's about. '
Letter 272 2009
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It is intended to engrave 4 plates only, for my Booksellers are averse to the costly and fashionable stile of publishing; One or two of which plates they seem allmost determin'd to take from my own scetches on the spot, this, I fear may appear strange to you, but not surely if you recollect that their object is to lay hold of every thing which can interest or bias in the sale.
Letter 256 2009
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That time is come, for I have determin'd to return to
Letter 332 2009
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Despite my having cross'd into a Realm where I had no further Use for Money, or, such Baubles as a Watch fac'd as I was with an Infinitude of Time, I determin'd to avenge myself; and, so endeavour'd to discourage Custom by laying ghostly Hands and breathing a cold Breath on Any who would enter Cruikshank's Premises.
When lawyers shop... Ann Althouse 2009
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Root, or which is Branch, it matters not; since it may be determin'd, that the Tree produces the worst of
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Probability arises from an opposition of contrary chances or causes, by which the mind is not allow'd to fix on either side, but is incessantly tost from one to another, and at one moment is determin'd to consider an object as existent, and at another moment as the contrary.
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