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law-like, a.|ˈlɔːlaɪk|
[f. law n.1 + like.]
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. Obs.
1553N. Grimalde Cicero's Offices i. (1558) 3 Plato coulde haue spoken very grauelie and plentifully if he would haue practised ye lawlike sort of pleading. 1575Gascoigne Dulce bellum cciii, Let not my verse your lawlike minds displease. 1638Lisle Ags. Monum., Lord's Prayer &c., The ten lawlike words, that God himself taught Moyses. 1644Milton Divorce ii. vii. 47 The giving of any law or law-like dispence to sin for hardnesse of heart. 1818Cobbett Pol. Reg. XXXIII. 301 Provisions dressed forth with all the ‘saids’ and other law-like words.
c. Philos. 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.
1949G. 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. 1961E. Nagel Struct. of Sci. ii. 21 The premises contain at least one ‘lawlike’ assumption. 1968M. Black in R. Klibansky Contemp. Philos. II. 59 Scientific or ‘lawlike’ generalizations require, in Peirce's phrase, reference to a ‘would-be’. 1973Nature 27 July 241/1 Archaeological explanations should be very general, preferably of lawlike form. |