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<p>'''Determine.'''</p>
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| The 'termination' is an ending, and a 'term' is
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<p>The ''termination'' is an ending, and a ''term'' is a period (that comes to an end).  ''Terminal'' was first (and still may be) an adjective;  The Latin noun ''terminus'' has come directly into English: Latin ''terminare, terminat-'', to end;  ''terminus'', boundary.  From the limit itself, as in ''term'' of office or imprisonment, ''term'' grew to mean the limiting conditions (the ''terms'' of an agreement); hence, the ''defining'' (Latin ''finis'', end;  compare ''finance'') of the idea, as in a ''term'' of reproach; ''terminology''.</p>
| a period (that comes to an end).  'Terminal' was
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<p>To ''determine'' is to set down limits or bounds to something, as when you ''determine'' to perform a task, or as ''determinism'' pictures limits set to man's freedom.  ''Predetermined'' follows this sense;  but ''extermination'' comes later.  Otherwise, existence would be ''interminable''.</p>
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| Latin 'terminare, terminat-', to end;  'terminus',
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<p>Joseph T. Shipley, ''Dictionary of Word Origins'', Rowman and Allanheld, Totowa, NJ, 1967, 1985.</p>
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| office or imprisonment, 'term' grew to mean the
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| limiting conditions (the 'terms' of an agreement);
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| hence, the 'defining' (Latin 'finis', end;  compare
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| 'finance') of the idea, as in a 'term' of reproach;
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| 'terminology'. To 'determine' is to set down limits
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| or bounds to something, as when you 'determine' to
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| perform a task, or as 'determinism' pictures limits
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| set to man's freedom.  'Predetermined' follows this
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| sense;  but 'extermination' comes later.  Otherwise,
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| existence would be 'interminable'.
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| Joseph T. Shipley, 'Dictionary of Word Origins',
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| Rowman & Allanheld, Totowa, NJ, 1967, 1985.
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