English English Dictionary

Of or pertaining to termination; forming a termination.

Tending or serving to terminate; terminating; determining; definitive.

One who, or that which, terminates.

The dividing line between the illuminated and the unilluminated part of the moon.

Terminative.

To terminate.

A determining; as, in oyer and terminer. See Oyer.

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The doctrine held by the Terminists.

One of a class of theologians who maintain that God has fixed a certain term for the probation of individual persons, during which period, and no longer, they have the offer to grace.

Of or pertaining to terminology.

The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms.

The terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms; as, the terminology of chemistry.

Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit.

The Roman divinity who presided over boundaries, whose statue was properly a short pillar terminating in the bust of a man, woman, satyr, or the like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in the ground on a boundary line.

Hence, any post or stone marking a boundary; a term. See Term, 8.

Either end of a railroad line; also, the station house, or the town or city, at that place.

Any one of numerous species of pseudoneoropterous insects belonging to Termes and allied genera; -- called also white ant. See Illust. of White ant.

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