1781 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 I. vi. 525/1 California was still standing at the door of the Union,..its boundaries self-defined, its constitution self-formed.
1934 47 475 These are among the self-defined uncomfortable or inconvenient rather than socially undesirable practices.
2002 Spring 42/2 They want a new minority, a subculture of self-defined radicals.