Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Determinate \De*ter"mi*nate\, a. [L. determinatus, p. p. of
   determinare. See {Determine}.]
   1. Having defined limits; not uncertain or arbitrary; fixed;
      established; definite.

            Quantity of words and a determinate number of feet.
                                                  --Dryden.

   2. Conclusive; decisive; positive.

            The determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God.
                                                  --Acts ii. 23.

   3. Determined or resolved upon. [Obs.]

            My determinate voyage.                --Shak.

   4. Of determined purpose; resolute. [Obs.]

            More determinate to do than skillful how to do.
                                                  --Sir P.
                                                  Sidney.

   {Determinate inflorescence} (Bot.), that in which the
      flowering commences with the terminal bud of a stem, which
      puts a limit to its growth; -- also called {centrifugal
      inflorescence}.

   {Determinate problem} (Math.), a problem which admits of a
      limited number of solutions.

   {Determinate quantities}, {Determinate equations} (Math.),
      those that are finite in the number of values or
      solutions, that is, in which the conditions of the problem
      or equation determine the number.