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De - Pt| English Dictionary: Termini | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Terminus \Ter"mi*nus\, n.; pl. {Termini}. [L. See {Term}.] 1. Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit. 2. (Myth.) The Roman divinity who presided over boundaries, whose statue was properly a short pillar terminating in the bust of a man, woman, satyr, or the like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in the ground on a boundary line. 3. Hence, any post or stone marking a boundary; a term. See {Term}, 8. 4. Either end of a railroad line; also, the station house, or the town or city, at that place. | |
