The sun was obviously the determiner of day and night, and its rising and setting directed men's attention to the east and the west as cardinal points intimately associated with the daily birth and death of the sun.
"The Evolution of the Dragon"
G. Elliot Smith
And then I mynding to send hym to prison, he made sute that he might be bounde to appeare at the oier and determiner, the which is to-morrowe, where he said that he was sure the court wold not bynd hym, being a counsellor's man.
"Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592"
Arthur Acheson
It pertains to that spiritual content which never changes as it passes through the various historical determinations, and which might therefore be styled the "determiner of the intrinsic and absolute essence of the spirit."
"The Reform of Education"
Giovanni Gentile