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‖ mutatis mutandis, advb. phr.|mjuːˈtɑːtɪs mjuːˈtændɪs|
[L., f. mutatis, mutandis, ablative pl. respectively of pa. pple. and gerundive of mūtāre to change.]
‘Things being changed that have to be changed’, i.e. with the necessary changes; with due alteration of details (in comparing cases).
1498Coventry Leet Bk. (1909) 595 And like billes, mutatis mutandis, were put In ayenst Gloucestre & Worcestre. 1615T. Bone Let. 9 Nov. in J. P. Collier Egerton Papers (1840) 472 The very same (mutatis mutandis onely) weere put in practize by Foreman. 1666Phil. Trans. R. Soc. I. 289 The like may be fitted to Mars in other positions, mutatis mutandis; and so for the other Planets. 1710Swift Tale Tub (ed. 5) Author's Apology sig. a1, I know nothing more contemptible in a Writer than the Character of a Plagiary; which he here fixes at a venture, and this, not for a Passage, but a whole Discourse, taken out from another Book only mutatis mutandis. 1753Chesterfield in World 14 June 146 The utility of this invention extends, mutatis mutandis, to whatever can be the subject of letters. 1817Coleridge Biogr. Lit. I. xiii. 288 The actual application of the positions which had so wonderfully enlarged the discoveries of geometry, mutatis mutandis, to philosophical subjects. 1877Trans. Connecticut Acad. Arts & Sci. III. 345 The same may be said, mutatis mutandis, of the other symbols of the same type. 1892[see homosexual a. and n. A.]. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 23 July 570/2 Mutatis mutandis, one might trace a succession from the seventeenth-century divine and Fellow of the Royal Society..to the well-known modern names in philosophy. 1955Times 11 July 13/6 Mutatis mutandis these lucid words still apply to the exertions of Russian historians carrying on the same tradition. 1962S. E. Finer Man on Horseback ii. 6 What is said of the army here is to be taken also to apply, mutatis mutandis, to the air force and the navy. 1973Times 13 Dec. 18/2 Mutatis mutandis, we are going to face a series of enforceable demands by the ‘undeveloped’ nations, equivalent to the Arabs' demand for higher pay for their oil. |