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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1638-1678
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Nomothetic(k, -ik, a. [e.m.E. (once) nomothetic (1658), Gr. νομοθετικός: cf. Nomothetical(l,a.] Law-giving, legislative. — 1638 Baillie I. 117.
To be absolved from the tye of laws, that nomothetick power 1657 Johnston Diary III. 65.
The taiking of the judiciarye, nomothetik and militarye power all one 1678 J. Brown Hist. Indulgence (1783) 253.
The magistrate's autocratorical determining of these qualifications and … his assuming a supreme nomothetic power in church matters 1678 Ib. 195.
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