interminate meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

interminate

adj

/ɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)mɪnət/

Etymology From in- + terminate.

Without end or limit; boundless, infinite, interminable.

Within a thicket I reposed; when round / I ruffled up fall'n leaves in heap; and found, / Let fall from heaven, a sleep interminate.1614–1615, Homer, “The Seventh Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC, page 165, lines 395–397:

verb

/ɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)mɪneɪt/

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

Obsolete, Rare To menace; to threaten.

In all those three Euangelists, where this fearfull denunciation is interminated.a. 1631, John Donne, The sermons:
Will ye have the specialities of his threatened judgements? […] But enough, enough of these doleful accents of interminated judgmentsa. 1656, Bishop Joseph Hall, The Mourner in Sion:

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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.1726, Richard Fiddes, D. D., The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, 2nd edition, London, page 257: