different between inspirit vs determine

English

Etymology

From Middle English inspiriten, equivalent to in- +? spirit.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: in?spi?rit

Verb

inspirit (third-person singular simple present inspirits, present participle inspiriting, simple past and past participle inspirited)

1. To strengthen or hearten; give impetus or vigour.
   • c. 1615, Josuah Sylvester (translator), “The Tropheis of the Vertues and Fortune of Henrie the Great” by Pierre Matthieu in Works of Du Bartas^[1], London, c. 1641, page 548:

     Ah! must wee live, and see so sudden dead

     The Life that late our lives inspirited?

   • 1718, Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer^[2], London: Bernard Lintot, Observations on the Fourteenth Book, Verse 30, page 129:

     And nothing could be better imagin’d than the reason, why the wounded Princes left their Tents; they were impatient to behold the Battel, anxious for its Success, and desirous to inspirit the Soldiers by their Presence.

   • 1856, John Esten Cooke, chapter LXI, in The Last of the Foresters^[3]:

     The landlord had been so much pleased with Mr. Jinks’ patriotic ardor in the German cause, that he generously hinted at an entire obliteration of any little score chalked up against the name of Jinks for board and lodging at the hostelry; this was one of the circumstances which inspirited Mr. Jinks.

   • 1899, Stanley Waterloo, The Wolf’s Long Howl ^[4]:

     The queer thought somehow inspirited him.

   • 2003, Robert Brustein, “Three Years after ‘1984’”, in Reimagining American Theatre^[5], part II, New York: Hill & Wang:

     The "festival" […] this year has concerned itself largely with opera and dance, most of its pieces (perhaps in order to inspirit our AIDS-demoralized sexuality) inspired by the Don Juan motif.

2. To fill or imbue with spirit.
   • 1709, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, “The Moralists, a Philosophical Rhapsody”, in Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, volume II, London, 1732, pages 369–370:

     […] the Assurance we have of the Existence of Beings above our Sense, and of Thee, (the great Exemplar of thy Works) comes from Thee, the All-True, and Perfect, who hast thus communicated thy-self more immediately to us, so as in some manner to inhabit within our Souls; Thou who art Original Soul, diffusive, vital in all, inspiriting the Whole.

   • 2002, Nel Noddings, Starting at Home: Caring and Social Policy, part 2, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, page 124:

     Human beings, even fully mature adults, are neither detached rationalities nor mere collections of responses to environmental stimuli. They are inspirited, thinking bodies, and it is their bodies that launch the development of selves through a multitude of complex encounters.

Synonyms

• (to hearten): invigorate
• (to imbue with spirit): ensoul

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• determin (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English determinen, from Old French determiner, French déterminer, from Latin determin?re (“to bound, limit, prescribe, fix, determine”), from de + termin?re (“to limit”), from terminus (“bound, limit, end”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??t??m?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d??t?m?n/

Verb

determine (third-person singular simple present determines, present participle determining, simple past and past participle determined)

1. To set the boundaries or limits of.
2. To ascertain definitely; to figure out, find out, or conclude by analyzing, calculating, or investigating.
3. To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle.
   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 259]:

     These dramas may appear purely internal but they are perhaps economically determined … when people think they are being so subtly inventive or creative they merely reflect society's general need for economic growth.

4. To fix the course of; to impel and direct; with a remoter object preceded by to.

5. To bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence; to decide.

6. To resolve (to do something); to establish a fixed intention; to cause (something) to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead.

7. (logic) To define or limit by adding a differentia.
8. (obsolete) To bring to an end; to finish.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• determine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• determine in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• determine at OneLook Dictionary Search
• "determine" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 98.

Anagrams

• intermede, nemertide

Galician

Verb

determine

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of determinar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of determinar

Ladin

Verb

determine

1. first-person singular present indicative of determiner
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of determiner
3. third-person singular present subjunctive of determiner
4. third-person plural present subjunctive of determiner

Portuguese

Verb

determine

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of determinar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of determinar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of determinar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of determinar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [de?termine]

Verb

determine

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of determina
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of determina

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dete??mine/, [d?e.t?e??mi.ne]

Verb

determine

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of determinar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of determinar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of determinar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of determinar.