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1781 London Courant 14 Feb. To execute his divine will, by continuing the Supreme Court at Calcutta, with their present unlimited jurisdiction and self-defined power.

1854 J. H. Hinton Hist. & Topogr. U.S. I. vi. 525/1 California was still standing at the door of the Union,..its boundaries self-defined, its constitution self-formed.

1934 Harvard Law Rev. 47 475 These are among the self-defined uncomfortable or inconvenient rather than socially undesirable practices.

2002 Dissent Spring 42/2 They want a new minority, a subculture of self-defined radicals.