in concretoadv.

1584 R. Cosin Answer to Two Fyrst & Principall Treat. ii. vii. 258 The law of nature in it selfe considered is alwaies good and equall, and in Abstracto is vniformelie in force, but in Concreto it may be changed in some point.

1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions ix. 310 Though by the law Salique the Lady Infanta may be..put from her..lawfull claime to the whole kingdome of France, in concreto.

1618 T. Adams Happines of Church i. 217 And the Popes haue so wrought and brought it about now, that they will not onely in abstracto be had in reuerence; but in concreto be feared with obseruation.

1725 P. Shaw Philos. Wks. R. Boyle III. i. 81 There may be latent qualities in the air; these qualities being understood, in concreto, together with the substances, or corporal effluvia, wherein they reside.

1798 A. F. M. Willich Elements Crit. Philos. 39 A bare idea of a possible science, which is no where given in concreto.

1857 tr. I. Kant in Brit. Med. Jrnl. 7 Nov. 928/1 He may very possibly blunder..because..he can comprehend the general in abstracto, cannot distinguish whether a particular case in concreto ought to rank under the former.

1885 W. James in Mind 10 41 I may satisfy him that the words mean for me just what they mean for him, by showing him in concreto the very animals and their arrangements, of which the pages treat.

1936 C. S. Lewis Allegory of Love vi. 289 The symbol..fits all, and gives in concreto a characteristic of our life.

2013 Law & Hist. Rev. 31 859 Capt. Priebke was..in abstracto, subject to the punishment of a life sentence. However, in concreto, some mitigating circumstances had to be taken into account.