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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
determine .
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Examples
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For the rule of manners, without civil government, is the law of nature; and in it, the law civil, that determineth what is honest and dishonest; what is just and unjust; and generally what is good and evil.
Leviathan 2007
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For though they that speak of this subject use to confound jus and lex, right and law, yet they ought to be distinguished, because right consisteth in liberty to do, or to forbear; whereas law determineth and bindeth to one of them: so that law and right differ as much as obligation and liberty, which in one and the same matter are inconsistent.
Leviathan 2007
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Save in her evil creed Persia determineth ill.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Save in her evil creed Persia determineth ill.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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[The Hans societie determineth the ouerthrow of English merchants.]
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Truly Aristotle himselfe in his discourse of Poesie {43}, plainly determineth this question, saying, that Poetrie is philosophoteron and spuodaioteron, that is to say, it is more Philosophicall and more [studiously serious] {44} then History.
Defence of Poesie 1992
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Secondly, “God willeth not the death of a sinner,” is either, “God purposeth and determineth he shall not die,” or, “God commandeth that he shall do those things wherein he may live.”
The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967
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To us these lie under a double consideration: — First, Simply as they are in God; and so it is impossible they should be differenced from his infinite wisdom and will, whereby he determineth of any thing.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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[Sidenote: King Egelred determineth to give place vnto Swaine.]
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (7 of 8) The Seventh Boke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed
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Although it so be, the Iudge determineth vpon Murder, whiche is in like sort horrible, soche also as dooe séeke to caste into perill their countrée, and by treason to destroie thesame,
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