Obs. [f. L. contermināt- ppl. stem of contermināre to border upon each other, f. contermin-us: see CONTERMINOUS.]

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  1.  intr. To be conterminous in space, to have a common limit or boundary.

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1637.  Bastwick, Litany, III. 14. In the towne where he dwelt, and the parishes conterminating thereabouts.

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1656.  Blount, Glossogr., Conterminate, to lye near or border on a place.

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1709.  Sacheverell, Serm., 15 Aug., 14. The … Author, in whom they must all Center, and Conterminate.

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  2.  To be conterminous in time.

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1664.  H. More, Myst. Iniq., II. vi. § 18. 377. The Fall of Babylon also conterminates with the sixth trumpet. Ibid. (1681), Exp. Dan., App. iii. 307. The Laodicean Interval in a manner conterminating with the Conflagration of the World. Ibid. (1684), Answer, 61. A decursion … conterminating to the end of the world.

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  Hence Conterminating ppl. a.

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1805.  G. S. Faber, Dissertation (1806), I. 211. The end of these two conterminating periods.

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