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单词 law-like
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law-likeadj.

Brit. /ˈlɔːlʌɪk/, U.S. /ˈlɔˌlaɪk/, /ˈlɑˌlaɪk/
Etymology: < law n.1 + -like suffix.
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a. Like to law, having a resemblance to law, or to legal phraseology or proceedings. Now rare.
b. Disposed or inclined to law or rule. Obsolete.
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society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [adjective] > domineering or overbearing
masterfulc1390
pontificalc1440
overmasterfula1450
headya1513
imperious1529
supercilious1536
masterlya1544
termagant1546
law-like1556
masterlike1580
dictator-like1582
peremptory1590
domineering1598
burly1605
high-handed1606
pontificial1613
lording1629
overlordingc1629
pontifician1629
peremptor1630
dictatory1639
predominant1642
dictatorial1692
pontific1716
overbearing1718
dictativea1774
knock-me-down1848
imponenta1882
bossy1882
heavy-handed1883
seigneurial1970
1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties i. f. 2 Plato could haue spoken very grauelie, & plentifully, if he would haue practised ye lawlike sort of pleading.
1575 G. Gascoigne Fruites of Warre ccii, in Posies sig. Kvii Let not my verse your lawlike minds displease.
a1637 W. Lisle Divers Anc. Monuments Saxon Tongue (1638) sig. &c The ten lawlike words, that God himself taught Moyses.
1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 47 The giving of any law, or law-like dispence to sin for hardnesse of heart.
1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 301 Provisions dressed forth with all the ‘saids’ and other law-like words.
c. Philosophy. Of a statement, explanation, etc.: resembling scientific laws in saying that some consequence would occur in any situation of a certain sort, though differing in containing reference to individuals; also, such as to be a law of nature if established as true.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > empiricism > [adjective] > like a law of nature
law-like1949
1949 G. Ryle Concept of Mind iv. 89 How does the law-like general hypothetical proposition work? It says, roughly, that the glass, if sharply struck or twisted, etc. would..fly into fragments.
1961 E. Nagel Struct. of Sci. ii. 21 The premises contain at least one ‘lawlike’ assumption.
1968 M. Black in R. Klibansky Contemp. Philos. II. 59 Scientific or ‘lawlike’ generalizations require, in Peirce's phrase, reference to a ‘would-be’.
1973 Nature 27 July 241/1 Archaeological explanations should be very general, preferably of lawlike form.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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