determinate

The French Revolution then dynamited Europe’s old order and dynamized society as a collective organism, evolving in a “quasi-biological and determinate way.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

Scotland's prisons currently house 2,037 prisoners serving determinate sentences of four to 10 years, and 465 on sentences of 10 years or more.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2024

Jones was given an extended determinate sentence, where an offender receives a fixed jail term and an extended period on licence after their release.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2023

Determinate tomatoes: McKeever makes the case for determinate tomatoes, which are tomatoes that stay bushy instead of vining out and have a more set production, as these have more compact root systems.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2023

Substantial Forms, Occult Qualities, Intentional Species, Idiosyncrasies, Sympathies and Antipathies of Things, are exploded...because they are only empty Sounds, Words whereof no Man can form a certain and determinate Idea.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

That's precisely what them men war determinated not ter be!

From The Young Mountaineers Short Stories by Malcolm Fraser

The extent and the intensity of production have been and remain the determinating factors in the extent and kind of the means of production.

From Freeland A Social Anticipation by Theodor Hertzka

If we must look for some determinating influences during the childhood of Schiller, they are chiefly to be found in the character of his father.

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

Its character is such that it becomes the determinating factor of human adaptations to the conditions imposed by the environment, by envisaging the enduring and efficacious elements among these conditions as persons.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode

But even to-day what do we find the general reliance of the American mind in determinating this question?

From Civilization the Primal Need of the Race The American Negro Academy. Occasional Paper No. 3 by Alexander Crummell

The New Englanders were anxious to buy the lands, but were earnest in their determinating to exclude slavery from the new territory.

From The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 by Theodore Roosevelt