deter i or1ty

[As if from a Lat. deter i oritas; from deter i or = worse.] A worse state or quality; a state of deterioration. "The deteriority of diet."-Ray. *dě-ter me, v . t. [DETERMINE.] 1. To determine, to decide. "To deter me all causis in the said parly ament."- Act Audit. A., 1489, p. 145. 2. To determine, to resolve, to agree. "We now being all of one minde are aggreit and deter . mit to put in executioun sic thing is."- Earl of Arran to Henry VIII .