Destruction (Hastings' Dictionary)

See Ahaddon. DETERMINATE Only Ac 2» 'the d. counsel • This is the eente In which the paasage ia tal(en by 0^. Heb. Lax. {9.V. riiDr\\ ' ha lived as do one desired.' and foreknowledge of God' (•^pufi^vos, fr. optfu, to mark a buund^uy, fix, apiioint. The closest parallel is Lk 22-'- ' the Son of man indeed goeth, as it hath been determined ' RV, Gr. Kara r j i}piaixivov). ' Determinate' is Tindale's word, whom all the VSS follow ; but Wyclif has the form we should now employ 'determyned.'

Chaucer has ' determinat ' in the same sense, as Astrolabe, I. xxi. 7 : ' sterres fixes, with hir longitudes and lati- tudes determinat ' ; and cf. Shaks. Twelfth Night, II. i. 10 : ' My determinate voj'age is mere extrava- gancy.' Determination, Zeph 3' 'my d. is to gather the nations ' (ts^y'a, lit. ' judgement,' as RVm) ; 2 Es 10" ' if thou shalt acknowledge the d. of God to be just' {terminus, lit. 'end,' RV ' decree ' ; cf. Ja 5" ' ye have seen the end of the Lord,' tAos).

Determine was common about 1611 in the sense of 'end,' ' terminate ' ; but in AV only the derived meanings are found, fix, decide, resolve. In AV Pref. the obsolete construction with ' of ' is used : ' For as it is a fault of incredulity, to doubt of those things that are evident ; so to determine of such things as the Spirit of God hath left (even in the judgement of the judicious) questionable, can be no less than presumption.' J. Hastings.