Definition of "interminate"

interminate¹

/ɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)mɪnət/

adjective
comparative more interminate, superlative most interminate
1. Without end or limit; boundless, infinite, interminable.
  Quotations
  Within a thicket I reposed; when round / I ruffled up fall'n leaves in heap; and found, / Let fall from heaven, a sleep interminate.The spelling has been modernized.
  1614–1615, Homer, “The Seventh Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, page 165, lines 395–397

interminate²

/ɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)mɪneɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present interminates, present participle interminating, simple past and past participle interminated
1. (obsolete) To menace; to threaten.
  Quotations
  doleful accents of interminated judgments
  a. 1656, Bishop Joseph Hall, The Mourner in Sion