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nomoˈthetical, a.
[See prec. and -al1.]
Law-giving; legislative.
1619T. Morton Def. Innoc. 3 Cerem. 60 Nomotheticall authority. 1637Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. iii. viii. 123 It includeth no such thing as a nomotheticall power, to prescribe..such sacred..Ceremonies as he shall thinke good. 1685Renwick Reply to Langton in Serm. (1776) 576 Not in an authoritative and nomothetical yet in a material and principal sense. 1854P. Fairbairn Typol. Script. (1857) II. iii. vii. 189 The nomothetical authority of the Mosiac law is abolished, but its didactical authority remains. 1880L. Oliphant Land of Gilead xiv. 392 The latter..were obliged to adopt their nomothetical laws outwardly. |