terminer

[Eng. term in (e); -er.] Law : A determining; as in oyer and terminer. [OYER.] *ter-mi-nine, s . [TERMINE.] A limit, a bound ary. "All jointly move upon one axletree, Whose term i nine is termed the world's wide pole." Murlowe: Doctor Faustus , 11. 2. ter-min-işm, s. [Ger. and Mod. Latin term in is mus , from Lat, terminus (q. v.).] 1. Church Hist . The belief that there is a terminus in each man's life, after which he is no longer capable of receiving grace or pardon for his sins. This doctrine occasioned a controversy at Leipzig in the seventeenth century, the chief movers in which were Reichenberg, who upheld the doctrine, and Ittig, who denied it. †2. Philos.: The same as NOMINALISM (q. v.). ter-min-ist, s. [Mod. Lat. terminist a.] 1. One who holds that there is a period in every man's life, after which he is incapable of becoming the subject of grace. [TERMINISM, 1.] 2. A Nominalist (q. v.), because the Nominalists held that Universals were names, or terms, and not things. "The Realists were more powerful than the Nominalists, or the Terminists as they were called."- Mosheim (ed. Reid), p. 526. ter-min-o-log-ic-al, a. [Eng. term i no log(y); -ical.] Of or pertaining to terminology. ter-min-o-log-ic-al-ly, adv. [Eng. term i no log ical; -ly.] In a terminological manner; by way of terminology.