(verb) : dis-termĭno, āvi, ātum, 1
* To separate by a boundary, to divide, limit, part (rare; mostly post-Aug.): quas (sterlas) intervallum binas disterminat unum,Cic. Arat. 94: Hispanias Galliasque Pyrenaei montes,Plin. 3, 3, 4, § 30: communibus parietibus,Dig. 10, 1, 4, § 10 al.—With ab: Arabia Judaeam ab Aegypto disterminat,Plin. 12, 21, 45, § 100: Vettones ab Asturia,id. 4, 20, 34, § 112: Gallica arva ab Ausoniis,Luc. 1, 216: Asiam ab Europa,id. 9, 957.
* Trop., to limit, regulate: ea res ratio disterminat omnis,Lucr. 2, 719.

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