单词 | nomothetical |
释义 | nomotheticaladj.ΘΚΠ society > law > legislation > [adjective] > legislating law-givinga1586 nomothetical1618 legislative1621 nomothetic1638 legislating1659 legislatorial1820 1618 Bp. T. Morton Def. Innocencie Three Ceremonies i. iii. 60 Nomotheticall authority. 1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies iii. viii. 123 It includeth no such thing as a nomotheticall power, to prescribe..such sacred..Ceremonies as he shall thinke good. 1685 J. Renwick Choice Coll. (1776) 576 Not in an authoritative and nomothetical yet in a material and principal sense. 1847 P. Fairbairn Typology Script. II. ii. vi. 242 The nomothetical authority of the Mosiac law is abolished, but its didactical authority remains. 1880 L. Oliphant Land of Gilead xiv. 392 The latter..were obliged to adopt their nomothetical laws outwardly. 2. = nomothetic adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > epistemology > [adjective] > of general principles nomothetic1904 nomothetical1931 1931 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 94 638 Statistical description (idiographical use of statistical method) and Statistical investigation of causal relationship (nomothetical use of statistical method). 1960 Jrnl. Philos. 57 237 Let us call those sciences that state laws nomological. 1993 Jrnl. Interdisciplinary Hist. 23 755 The possibility of reconciling the idiographical, relativizing propensities of the historian with the nomothetical—and hence theory-dependent—social sciences. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1618 |
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