Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not terminated; unbounded; unlimited; endless.
- To menace.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Endless.
- transitive verb obsolete To menace; to threaten.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Without end or limit;
boundless ;infinite . - verb obsolete To
menace ; tothreaten .
Etymologies
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in- + terminate
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Latin interminatus, past participle of interminari.
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Examples
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But when dawn broke and she saw those interminate plains west of Julesburg, those prodigious reaches of loneliness, gray-brown to the horizon without tree or shadow, the enormousness of their adventure overcame her, and she fell into such a trembling that Vesta had to grasp her hands and quieten her.
Centennial Michener, James 1974
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