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conterminable

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Etymology

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From con- +‎ terminable?

Adjective

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conterminable (not comparable)

  1. Having the same bounds; terminating at the same time or place.
    • c. 1638-1639, Henry Wotton, letter to Edmund Bacon
      Love and life are not conterminable.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for conterminable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)