The act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form.
Consequently for the being of a thing the need of a determinate form is prior to the need of determinate matter: for determinate matter is needed that it may be adapted to the determinate form.
And though the natural power cannot transmute other than determinate matter to a determinate form; nevertheless the Divine power, which is infinite, can transmute all matter to any form whatsoever.
Since, therefore, in the sacraments determinate sensible things are required, which are as the sacramental matter, much more is there need in them of a determinate form of words.
Since therefore the accidents follow upon the substantial form, it is necessary that determinate accidents should follow upon a determinate form; and among these accidents is quantity.
In proof whereof we must consider that if for the production of anything an exemplar is necessary, it is in order that the effect may receive a determinate form.
For an artificer produces a determinate form in matter by reason of the exemplar before him, whether it is the exemplar beheld externally, or the exemplar interiorily conceived in the mind.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "determinate form" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
