déterminé, n.m., desperate fellow, resolute man. Un petit —; a froward, ungovernable child.
déterminément, adv., absolutely, positively, determinately, expressly, precisely; boldly, resolutely.
déterminer, v.a., to determine, to decide, to settle, to fix; to ascertain; to resolve; to take a resolution; to fix the meaning; to lead to, to cause, to bring on or about. C’est moi qui l’ai déterminé à cela; it was I who made him take that resolve.
se déterminer, v.r., to resolve; to determine; to be determined. Je ne puis me — à rien; I cannot resolve upon anything.
déterminisme, n.m., (philos.) determinism.
déterré, n.m., person dug up. Avoir l’air d’un —; to look like one risen from the dead. Il a l’air d’un —; he is as pale as a ghost.
déterrer, v.a., to dig up; to disinter, to take up; to find, to discover, to bring to light, to ferret out, to rout out; to unkennel (foxes); to unearth (hunt.).
déterreur, n.m., hunter out, ferreter. — de saints; discoverer of the names of saints.
détersi-f, -ve, adj., (med.) detersive, abstergent, cleansing.
détersif, n.m., (med.) detergent, detersive.