All 4 Uses of
determine
in
Measure for Measure
- Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues: nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use.†
Scene 1.1 *determines = controls (how something will turn out)
- I thank your worship for your good counsel; but I shall follow it as the flesh and fortune shall better determine.†
Scene 2.1
- He professes to have received no sinister measure from his judge, but most willingly humbles himself to the determination of justice: yet had he framed to himself, by the instruction of his frailty, many deceiving promises of life; which I, by my good leisure, have discredited to him, and now he is resolved to die.†
Scene 3.2
- I for a while Will leave you: but stir not you till you have well Determined upon these slanderers.†
Scene 5.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(determined as in: is determined to succeed) firm in purpose
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(2)
(determine as in: determined she is guilty) to learn, discover, or decide
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(3)
(determine as in: this game determines the champion) to control (how something will turn out)