768 D E T 
To conclude; to fix ultimately.—Milton’s fubjeft was 
flill greater than Homer’s or Virgil’s : it does not deter¬ 
mine.the fate of fingle perfons or nations, but of a whole 
fpecies. Addifon. 
Deftruftion hangs on every word we fpeak, 
On every thought, till the concluding ftroke 
Determines all, and clofes our defign. Addifon. 
To bound ; to confine.—The principium individuationis 
is exifter.Ce itfelf, which determines a being of any fort to 
a particular time and place, incommunicable to two be¬ 
ings of the fame kind. Locke. —To a'djuft; to limit; to 
define.—He that has fettled in his mind determined ideas, 
with names affixed to them, will be able to difeern their 
differences one from another, which is really diffinguifil¬ 
ing. Locke. —To influence the choice.—As foon as the 
fhidious man’s hunger arid third: makes him uneafy, he, 
whofe will was never. determined to any purfuit of good 
cheer, is, by the uneafinefs of hunger and third:, pre- 
fently determined'to eating and drinking. Locke. —To re- 
folve.—Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father 
to flay David, i Sam. xx. 33.—To decide.—I do not afk 
whether bodies fo exift, that the motion of one cun not be 
without the motion of another: to determine this either 
way, is to beg the queftion for or againft a vacuum. 
Locke. —To put an end to ; to tieftroy : 
Now where is he, that will not flay fo long 
Till ficknefs hath determin'd me ? Skakefpeare. 
To DETER'MINE, v. n. To conclude ; to form a fi¬ 
nal conclufion : 
Eve! now expeft great tidings-, which, perhaps, 
Of us will foon determine, or impofe 
New laws to be obferv’d. Milton. 
To fettle opinion.—Tt is indifferent to the matter in hand 
which way the learned Hi all determine of it. Locke. —To 
end ; to come to an end. All pleafure fpringing from a 
gratified paflion, as moft of the pleafure of fin does, muft 
needs determine with that paflion. South. —To make a de- 
cilion : 
She foon fhall know of us 
'IIow honourably and how kindly we 
Determine for her. Skakefpeare. 
To end confequentially.—Revolutions of ftate, many 
times, make way for new inftitutions and forms ; and of¬ 
ten determine in either fettihg up fome tyranny at home, 
or bringing in fome conqueft from abroad. Temple. —To 
rcfolve concerning any thing: 
Now, noble peers, the caufe why we are met 
Is to determine of the coronation. Skakefpeare. 
DETF.'RN, a town of Germany, in the circle of Wefl- 
phalia, and county of Eaft Frifeland : one mile fouth of 
Stickhaufen. 
DETERRA'TION,/. [de and terra, Lat. deterrer, Fr.] 
Difcovery of any thing by removal of the earth that hides 
it; the aft of unburying.—This concerns the railing of 
new mountains, deterratiohs, or the devolution of earth 
down upon the valleys from the hills and higher grounds. 
Woodward. 
DETER'SION, f. [from detergo, Lat.] The aft of 
cleanfing a fore.—I endeavoured deterfon, but the matter 
could not be difeharged. Wifeman. 
DETER'SIVE, adj. Having the power to cleanfe; 
detergent. 
DETER'SIVE, f. An application that has the power 
of cleanfing wounds.—We frequently fee fimple ulcers 
afflifted with fliarp humours, which corrode them, and 
render them painful fordid ulcers, if not timely relieved 
\>y deterfives and lenients. Wifeman. 
To DETE'ST, v. a. [ detef or , I.at.J To hate ; to ab¬ 
hor ; to abominate.—There is that naturally in the heart 
of man whicji abhors fin as fin, and confequently would 
make him detejl it both in himfelf and others too. South, 
D E T 
Glory grows guilty of detefled crimes, 
When for fame’s fake, for praife, an outward part, 
We bend to that the working of the heart. Skakefpeare - 
DETEST'ABLE, adj. Hateful ; abhorred ; abomina¬ 
ble ; odious..—-He defired him to confider that both ar¬ 
mies con lifted of Chriftians, to whom nothing is more de- 
tejlable than effufion of human blood. Hayward. 
Beguil’d, divorc’d, wrong’d, fpighted, (lain ! 
Moft detef able death. Skakefpeare. 
DSTfiST'ABLY, adv. Hatefully; abominably; odi- 
oufiy.—It ftands here ftigmatized by the apoftle as a tem¬ 
per of mind rendering men fo detef ably bad, that the great 
enemy of mankind neither can nor defires to make them 
worfe. South. 
DETESTA'TION, f. Hatred; abhorrence; abomi¬ 
nation. It is fometimes ufed with for ; but of feftns 
more proper.—Our love of God will infpire us with a 
detef ation for fin, as what is of all things moft contrary to 
his divine nature. Swift. 
The detef ation you exprefs 
For vice in all its glitt’ring drefs. Swift. 
DETEST'ER, f. One that hates or abhors. 
To DETHRO'NE, v. a. [detroner, Fr. dc and thronus 7 
I.at.] To diveft of regality; to throw down from the 
throne; to deprive of regal dignity. 
DE'TINUE.y. in the common law, is like ablio depo- 
fiti in the civil law ; and is a writ which lies againft him, 
who having goods or chattels delivered to keep, refufeth 
to re-deliver them. In this aftion/of detinue it is necef- 
fary to afeertain the thing detained in fuch amannerasthat 
it may be fpecifically known and recovered. Therefore 
it cannot be brought for money, corn, or the like, for 
that cannot be known from other money or corn ; unlefs 
it be in a bag or a fack, for then it may be diftinguifhably 
marked. In order therefore to ground an aftion of deti¬ 
nue, which is only for the detaining, thefe. points are ne- 
ceflary ; 1. That the defendant came lawfully into pof- 
feflion of the goods, as either by delivery to him, or by 
finding them. 2. That the plpintiff have a property. 
3. That the goods themfelves be of fomevalue. 4. That 
they be afeertained in point of identity. Upon this the 
jury, if they find for the plaintiff, aflefs the feveral va¬ 
lues of the feveral parcels detained, and alfo damngesfor 
the detention. And the judgment is conditional ; that 
the plaintiff recover the fa id goods; or, if they cannot 
be had, tlreir refpeftive values, and alfo the damages for 
detaining them. Cro. Jac. 68 x. 
There is one difadvantage which attends this aftion, 
viz. that the defendant is herein permitted to wage his 
law ; that is, to exculpate himfelf by oath, and thereby 
defeat the plaintiff of his remedy ; which privilege in 
this cafe is grounded on the confidence originally repofed 
in the bailee by the bailor ; in the borrower by the lender, 
or the like : from w'hence arofe a ftrong prefumptive evi¬ 
dence, that in the plaintiff’s own opinion, the defendant 
was worthy of credit. 1 Inf. 295. For this arid other 
reafons, the aftion of detinue is now much difufed, and 
has given place to the aftion of trover. 
Detinue may be brought for a piece of gold of the 
price of twenty-one fhillings, though not for twenty-one 
Hiillings in money ; for here is a demand of a certain par¬ 
ticular piece. Bull. N. P. 50. If a man, receiving money 
from a banker, put part thereof into his bag, and while 
he is telling the reft, the bag is ftolen, no aftion of deti¬ 
nue lies ; becaufe by putting up the money, he had ap¬ 
propriated it to his own ufe. Comb. 475. A man lends 
.a fum of money to another, detinue lies not for it, but 
debt : but if A bargains and fells goods to B, upon con¬ 
dition to be void, if A pays B a certain fum of money at 
a day ; now if A pays the money, he may have detinue 
againft B for the goods, though they came not to the 
hands of B by bailment, but by bargain and fale. Cro . 
Eliz. 867. zDanv. 510. 
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