interminate

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English

Etymology 1

From in- +‎ terminate.

Pronunciation

Adjective

interminate (comparative more interminate, superlative most interminate)

  1. Without end or limit; boundless, infinite, interminable.
    Synonym: interminated
    • 1614–1615, Homer, “The Seventh Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. , London: Rich Field , for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer,  with Introduction and Notes, by Richard Hooper, M.A., F.S.A.">…], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, , 1857, →OCLC, page 165, lines 395–397:
      Within a thicket I reposed; when round / I ruffled up fall'n leaves in heap; and found, / Let fall from heaven, a sleep interminate.
      The spelling has been modernized.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin intermināt-, passive perfect participial stem of interminor (“I threaten, menace”).

Pronunciation

Verb

interminate (third-person singular simple present interminates, present participle interminating, simple past and past participle interminated)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To menace; to threaten.
    • a. 1631, John Donne, The sermons:
      In all those three Euangelists, where this fearfull denunciation is interminated.
    • a. 1656, Bishop Joseph Hall, The Mourner in Sion:
      Will ye have the specialities of his threatened judgements? But enough, enough of these doleful accents of interminated judgments
    • 1726, Richard Fiddes, D. D., The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, 2nd edition, London, page 257:
      The Duke was so irritated at the Summons, and the consequent Charge for his Attendance, that some unguarded Expressions escaped from him, highly reflecting upon the Cardinal, and interminating certain Effects of his Displeasure against him.

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Italian

Adjective

interminate

  1. feminine plural of interminato

Latin

Participle

intermināte

  1. vocative masculine singular of interminātus
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