liberum arbitriumn.

1642 W. Hall Serm. preached at St. Bartholomews 10 First, with that which is called liberum arbitrium, free will: he erected in Man a Magistracy and power over himselfe.

1645 T. Shepard Sound Beleever i. §5. 161 Hee that understands how liberum arbitrium may be in two faculties, must not wonder, if one grace be seated in both faculties of understanding and will.

a1651 N. Culverwell Act of Oblivion in Elegant Disc. Light of Nature (1652) ii. 38 The great Creator of Heaven and Earth, must wait upon mans liberum arbitrium.

1701 J. Sage Vindic. Disc. Princ. Cyprianic Age v. 230 This Liberum Arbitrium..our Martyr ascribes to every Bishop.

1781 Constit. 7 It is that liberum arbitrium which raises us one step above the brute-creation.

1840 T. Chalmers Let. 18 May in Earl of Aberdeen's Corr. with Rev. Dr. Chalmers 61 Your Lordship seems to think that the Bill, as it stands, does not limit or restrain the liberum arbitrium of the Presbytery.

1884 P. Schaff Hist. Christian Church (new ed.) III. ix. 822 Augustine, however, incidentally concedes, that the liberum arbitrium still so far exists even in fallen man.

1903 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 13 372 He does not accept the doctrine of the liberum arbitrium, however.

1967 J. Thompson Lonely Labyrinth vii. 154 Man fell owing to an act of abstract liberum arbitrium on man's own part.

2004 Polit. Theory 32 327 Sovereignty is defined as the will, understood both as liberum arbitrium, that is as arbitrary, individual choice among pre-given options, and as an absolute, transcendental creative power.