I.a bounding, fixing of bounds or limits.
I. Lit., Inscr. Grut. 197, 5; 198, 2.—
II. Trop., a fixing, determining (Ciceronian): “quorum (verborum) descriptus ordo alias aliā terminatione concluditur,” arrangement, Cic. Or. 59, 200: “poëtica et versus inventus est terminatione aurium,” determination, decision, id. ib. 53, 178: “exposita terminatio rerum expetendarum, cur, etc.,” id. Fin. 5, 10, 27.