interminate
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (Southern England): (file) - IPA(key): /ɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)mɪnət/
Adjective
[edit]interminate (comparative more interminate, superlative most interminate)
- Without end or limit; boundless, infinite, interminable.
- Synonym: interminated
- 1614–1615, Homer, “The Seventh Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC, page 165, lines 395–397:
- Within a thicket I reposed; when round / I ruffled up fall'n leaves in heap; and found, / Let fall from heaven, a sleep interminate.
Translations
[edit]interminable — see interminable
Etymology 2
[edit]From Latin interminatus, past participle of interminari.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)mɪneɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
[edit]interminate (third-person singular simple present interminates, present participle interminating, simple past and past participle interminated)
- (obsolete) To menace; to threaten.
- a. 1656, Bishop Joseph Hall, The Mourner in Sion:
- doleful accents of interminated judgments
Related terms
[edit]Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “interminate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Italian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]interminate
Latin
[edit]Participle
[edit]intermināte
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