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indetermined, a. Now rare.|ɪndɪˈtɜːmɪnd|
[f. in-3 + determined ppl. a.]
Not determined, undetermined.
1. Not definitely fixed, settled, decided, or ascertained; having no definite or clearly-marked character.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. vi. §90. 507/1 The Westerne Princes..wrapt and knotted in mutuall suspitions and quarrels indetermined. 1641R. Greville (Ld. Brooke) Eng. Episc. i. x. 56 Most of their Tenets were so much indetermined, that scarce any of them knew what he was to hold and beleeve. 1735–6H. Brooke Univ. Beauty v. 5 The Eternal Height of indetermin'd space! 1764Reid Inquiry i. i. 47 The word impression as used by Hume is for the most part a vague and indetermined expression. 1864Bowen Logic iv. 60 What..has no qualities attributed to it, though attributable, is said to be indetermined.
†2. Not determined to a certain course of action.
1628T. Spencer Logick 219 Mans will is a facultie free, and indetermined vnto one. 1660tr. Amyraldus' Treat. conc. Relig. ii. ii. 180 He will become poised between contrary probabilities, and indetermin'd (as they speak) not knowing on which side to propend. a1670Rust Disc. Truth (1682) 190 We have natures so indetermined to what is good.
†3. Math. = indeterminate 2 c. Obs.
1706W. Jones Syn. Palmar. Matheseos 137 Here 'tis plain, the Question is Indetermined. 1740Cheyne Regimen 220–1 Indetermin'd Problems in Algebra. 1743Emerson Fluxions 2 Those Quantities that are continually changing their Value are called variable or indetermin'd Quantities. |
