in genereadv.

1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iv. i. 157 (heading) Of the chesse borde in genere how it is made.

1534 tr. Lyndewode's Constit. Prouincialles v. f. 104 Two other solempne feastes yerely, be openly denounced accursed in genere with the rehersall of reseruation of the aforesayd absolution.

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 197 It was nothing with him to Temporise in genere, or in specie.

1678 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV 97 He makes it be only a remote concurse to the act considered in genere, in its generic nature, not to the individual particular act.

1714 J. Gadbury Ἐϕημερις 7 The eternal Trinity is of an infinite Love..One, not in Genere, or in Specie, but in Numero.

1821 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) II. 712 Vital or zoo-organic power, instinct and understanding, fall all three under the same definition in genere.

1897 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 7 418 That..will not entitle us to say that society joins individuals in any way which is, in genere, different from the way in which everything in the universe is joined to everything else.

1916 Yale Law Jrnl. 25 188 Correspondence in genere may, however, be limited in its scope.

1955 Jrnl. Relig. 35 105/2 The knowledge of God according to Calvin is ‘not knowledge in any acceptable sense of the term’, since God is not in genere.

2009 Ethics 120 163 He does rather skim past another problem in Albert's understanding of the good in genere.