akraticadj.n.

1896 Free Rev. Apr. 86 It does not concern us..to know whether there be antagonism between the socialisation of the means of production and the acratic form of society [i.e. anarchy].

1913 H. Scheffauer tr. R. Mayreder Surv. Woman Probl. 262 Carried to its extremes, this acratic tendency produces licentious domineering masculinity and weak, insignificant and passive, or else crafty, false and ludicrous femininity.

1969 G. Vlastos in Phoenix 23 75 Gallop..clings to the notion that the people to whom the question is being put are somehow merged with the acratic man whose soul is ‘the seat of conflict’ between good and evil.

1975 Canad. Philos. Jrnl. 5 232 Though acratic action may be involuntary and indeed may entail the loss of one's normal self, it does not entail the loss of moral or legal liability to penalty.

1980 A. O. Rorty in Social Sci. Information 19 908 If philosophers who deny acrasia are self-deceptive and akratic, so are those who deny the integrative functions of the varieties of rational strategies.

2009 P. Poellner in K. Gemes & S. May Nietszche on Freedom & Autonomy viii. 156 An addict or acratic person—a slave of momentary affect and desire.

1913 H. Scheffauer tr. R. Mayreder Surv. Woman Probl. 262 The commonest type is the acratic, the partially developed being of unmitigated sexuality.

1969 R. Robinson Ess. in Greek Philos. vii. 142 The second solution as well as the first consists in showing that the acratic both knows and does not know that his act is wrong.

1985 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Dec. 1485/2 The akratic's failure consists in forming such an all-out evaluative thought despite his considering that, relative to all his evidence, something else is best.

2010 D. Charles in J. Cottingham & P. Hacker Mind, Method, & Mortality iii. 51 There are, it seems, two different types of impetuous acratics under consideration in these passages.

1913 Eng. Rev. May 288 Mother hunger-striking. Dad away acratically golfing.

1975 Canad. Philos. Jrnl. 5 224 When you act acratically, it is not your normal self that acts.

2010 T. Engberg-Pedersen Cosmol. & Self in Apostle Paul iii. 77 Paul also speaks of ‘sin dwelling in me’ as the entity that is concretely active,..namely, when he acts acratically.