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Character. Calyx five-parted. Corolla none. Stamina ten. 
Hermaphrodite: style one. Drupe inferior, boat-shaped. 
1. Terminalia catappa.—Leaves obovate, tomentose be¬ 
neath. This is a large tall leafy tree, with spreading branches 
in whorls. Racemes among the leaves, very many, 
round. Bractes oblong, caducous, cordate.—Native of the 
East Indies. 
2. Terminalia glabrata.—Leaves obovate, smooth on both 
sides.—This also is a lofty widely-branching tree, with a 
straight stem clear of branches to a great height; the branches 
mostly opposite, round, spreading, smoothish, with a cine¬ 
reous cloven bark.—Native of the Society and Friendly isles 
in the South Seas. 
3. Terminalia latifolia.—Leaves obovate, subserrate; 
drupes fleshy. This tree has a very large trunk, and grows 
to a vast height, covered with a gray or very light-brown 
bark.—It grows in all the inland great woods of the island 
of Jamaica. 
4. Terminalia arbuscula.—Leaves ovate-lanceolate, entire, 
pubescent; branches dichotomous; racemes erect.—This 
also is a native of Jamaica. 
5. Terminalia chebula.—Leaves ovate, naked; petioles 
biglandular above; racemes simple. This tree scarcely ex¬ 
ceeds three or four times the height of a man, and is not 
much diffused. Branches scattered, covered with an ash- 
coloured bark.—Native of the East Indies. 
6 . Terminalia angustifolia.—Leaves lanceolate, pubescent. 
—Native of the East Indies. 
To TE'RMINATE, v. a. [ tcrmino , Lat. ; terminer , Fr. 
At first our word was ter mine: “ He termyneth sum dai.” 
Wicliffe, Heb. iv. 7.] To bound; to limit.—Bodies that 
are solid, separable, terminated, and moveable, have all 
sorts of figures. Loclce. —To put an end to: as, to terminate 
any difference. 
Tb TERMINATE, v. n. To be limited; to end; to 
have an end; to attain its end. 
Ere I the rapture of my wish renew, 
I tell you then, it terminates in you. Dryden. 
TERMINATION, s. The act of limiting or bounding; 
bound; limit.—Its earthly and salinous parts are so exactly 
resolved, that its body is left imporous, and not discreted by 
atomical terminations. Brown —End; conclusion ; last 
purpose.—It is not an idol ratione termini, in respect of 
termination ; for the religious observation thereof is referred 
and subservient to the honour of God and Christ: neither 
is it such ratione modi, for it is kept holy by the exercise of 
.evangelical duties. White. —[In grammar; terrninatio, 
Lat. ; terminaison, Fr.] End of words as varied by their 
significations.—Those rude heaps of words and terminations 
of an unknown tongue, would have never been so happily 
learnt by heart without some smoothing artifice. Watts. — 
Word; term. Not in use. —She speaks poniards, and 
every word stabs; if her breath were as terrible as her termi¬ 
nations, there were no living near her, she would infect the 
North star. Shakspeare. \ 
TERMINATION ISLAND, an island in the South Paci¬ 
fic ocean, so named by Captain Vancouver, as being the ter¬ 
mination of his researches on the south-west coast of New 
Holland, near which it lies. Lat. 34. 32. S. long. 122. 8 . E. 
TE'RMINATIVE, adj. Directing termination.—This 
objective, terminative presence flows from the fecundity of 
the divine nature. Bp. Rust. ^ 
TE'RMINATIVELY, adv. Absolutely; so as not to 
respect any thing else.—Whoever worships the image of any 
thing, cannot possibly worship that image terminative/y, for 
the very being of an image is relative. Bp. Taylor. 
TERMINI, a considerable sea-port of Sicily, in the Val di 
Mazzara, situated on the north coast, at the mouth of the ri¬ 
ver Termini; 18 miles east-south-east of Palermo. Lat. 38. 
5. N. long. 13. 45. E. 
TERMINI, a river of the island of Sicily, which flows 
towards the north, in the Val di Mazzara, to the south-east of 
Palermo. 
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TERMINISTS, or TerministjE, in Ecclesiastical His¬ 
tory, a sect or party among the Calvinists, whose particular 
tenets are reducible to five points:— 
1. That there are several persons, both in and out of the 
church, to whom God has fixed a certain term before their 
death, after which he no longer wills their salvation, how 
long soever they live afterwards. 2 . That God has fixed 
this fatal term of grace by a secret decree. 3. That this 
term once elapsed, he makes them no farther offer of rer 
pentance or salvation, but takes away from his word all the 
power it might have to convert them. 4. That Pharaoh, 
Saul, Judas, most of the Jews, and many of the Gentiles, 
were of this number. 5. That God still bears with several 
of this sort of people, and even confers benefits on them 
after the term is expired; but that he does not do it with any 
intention they should be converted. 
TERMINOS, a lake or bay on the coast of Tabasco, in 
the bay of Campeachy. Lat. 18. 12. N. long. 92. 46. W. 
Its mouth is a secure port, and has secured many vessels 
from being wrecked. 
TERMI'NTHUS, s. [repyivdoi;, Gr.] A tumour.— Ter - 
minthus is of a blackish colour; it breaks, and within a day 
the pustule comes away in a slough. Wiseman. 
TE'RMLESS, adj. Unlimited; boundless.—These be¬ 
traying lights look not up towards ter?nless joys, nor down 
towards endless sorrows. Ralegh. 
TE'RMLY, adj. Occurring every term.—The clerks are 
partly rewarded by that means also, besides that termly fee 
which they are allowed. Bacon. 
TE'RMLY, adv. Term by term; every term.—The 
fees or allowances that are termly given to these deputies I 
pretermit. Bacon. 
TERMOLI, a town of Italy, in the east part of the king¬ 
dom of Naples, in the province called Capitanata; 40 miles 
south-east of Ortona a Mare, and 90 north-north-east of Na¬ 
ples. Lat. 42. 2. N. long. 15. 5. E. 
TERNA, a small town of Austrian Italy, in the delegation 
of Como, which gives name to a small lake in the neighbour¬ 
hood ; 30 miles north-west of Milan. 
TE'RNARY, adj. [ternarius, Lat.] Proceeding by 
threes; consisting of three. 
TE'RNARY, or Te'rnion, s. [ternarius, and ternio, 
Lat.] The number three.—These nineteen consonants stood 
in such confused order, some in ternaries, some in pairs, 
and some single. Holder. 
TERN ATE, the northernmost of a chain of islands on the 
west coast of Gilolo, and formerly the seat of sovereignty 
over all the adjacent Molucca islands, Tidore, Bachian, Motir, 
and Machian. The king of Ternate is still the most power¬ 
ful of the Molucca princes, possessing the northern part of 
Gilolo, with Morty, Bachian, Motir, &c„ and part of Papua, 
whence he receives a tribute of gold, amber, and birds of pa¬ 
radise. 
TERNERA, a settlement of New Granada, in the pro¬ 
vince of Carthagena; 6 miles north of Carthagena. 
TERNETH, a small town of the Netherlands, in South 
Brabant, near Brussels, with 1500 inhabitants, and large 
breweries and distilleries. 
TERNEUSE, a small town of the Netherlands, in the 
province of Zealand, situated on the banks of the Hondt or 
Western Scheldt. Population 1100; 12 miles south-east of 
Flushing, and 20 north-north-east of Ghent. 
TERNI, a town of Italy, in the State of the Church, situ¬ 
ated in a luxuriant valley, between two branches of the river 
Nera. The cascades of the Evelino, called the Caduta delle 
Marmore , about four miles from Terni, are considered 
among the finest in the world. They consist of several 
streams, which, after running with great impetuosity, preci¬ 
pitate themselves from the brink of a rock, upwards of 300 
feet in height, and fall into the Nera with a noise like thun¬ 
der. The neighbouring scenery is highly picturesque. Ter¬ 
ni gave birth to several emperors, and to Tacitus the histo¬ 
rian ; 12 miles south of Spoleto, and 45 north of Rome 
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