interminate

comparative more interminate · superlative most interminate

1. 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

   Synonyms: interminated

present singular third person interminates · participle present interminating · participle past interminated · past interminated

1. obsoleterareTo menace; to threaten.

   In all those three Euangelists, where this fearfull denunciation is interminated.

   a. 1631, John Donne, The sermons

   2 more examples

   Will ye have the specialities of his threatened judgements? […] But enough, enough of these doleful accents of interminated judgments

   a. 1656, Bishop Joseph Hall, The Mourner in Sion

   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