a. and sb. [ad. L. conterminānt-em, pr. pple. of contermināre: see CONTERMINATE.]
A. † 1. = CONTERMINOUS 1. Obs.
1640. Howell, Dodona’s Gr., 43. The great emporiall Tamisond with her suburbian and conterminent fabrickes.
2. Terminating together (in time). nonce-use.
1833. Lamb, Elia, Ser. II. (1860), 268. If haply your dates of life were conterminant.
B. sb. pl. Persons whose lands march together.
1610. W. Folkingham, Art of Survey, II. ii. 50. Sometimes this Compound Boundage implies a mutuall propertie or duety participable to the Conterminants, as bancking, balking, dyking, etc.
