单词 | mutatis mutandis |
释义 | mutatis mutandisadv. With the necessary changes; with due alteration of details (used when comparing two or more cases or situations). ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > alternation > [adverb] > as alternative > with due alteration mutatis mutandisa1525 a1525 Coventry Leet Bk. 595 And like billes, mutatis mutandis, were put In ayenst Gloucestre & Worcestre. 1615 T. Bone Let. 9 Nov. in J. P. Collier Egerton Papers (1840) 472 The very same (mutatis mutandis onely) weere put in practize by Foreman. 1666 Philos. Trans. 1665–6 (Royal Soc.) 1 289 The like may be fitted to Mars in other positions, mutatis mutandis; and so for the other Planets. 1710 J. Swift Tale of Tub (ed. 5) Apol. sig. a1 I know nothing more contemptible in a Writer than the Character of a Plagiary; which he here fixes at a venture, and this, not for a Passage, but a whole Discourse, taken out from another Book only mutatis mutandis. 1753 Ld. Chesterfield in World 14 June 146 The utility of this invention extends, mutatis mutandis, to whatever can be the subject of letters. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. xiii. 288 The actual application of the positions which had so wonderfully enlarged the discoveries of geometry, mutatis mutandis, to philosophical subjects. 1877 Trans. Connecticut Acad. Arts & Sci. 3 345 The same may be said, mutatis mutandis, of the other symbols of the same type. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 July 570/2 Mutatis mutandis, one might trace a succession from the seventeenth-century divine and Fellow of the Royal Society..to the well-known modern names in philosophy. 1962 S. E. Finer Man on Horseback ii. 6 What is said of the army here is to be taken also to apply, mutatis mutandis, to the air force and the navy. 1986 Stone's Justices' Man. (ed. 118) I. 540 Sections 388 and 187 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 correspond mutatis mutandis with s[ection] 8 of the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.a1525 |
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