self-determinedadj.

1653 R. Carpenter Anabaptist Washt cii. 377 Now the Hearts of Selfe-moving and Selfe-determined People, are so infixed and immudded into receiv'd Doctrines; that..still they fancy themselves to hear some Voice from Heaven.

1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron II. vii. xxii. 184 It is not doubted that Man is accountable, that he acts, and is self-determined.

1836 Amer. Ann. Educ. & Instr. Aug. 346 You are not an infant now, nor a child, but a man, and must go forth and go onward, self-determined and self-impelled.

1898 J. R. Illingworth Divine Immanence i. 7 We are self-determined; since, from the objects that occur to us, we can choose the one which we shall make our own.

1909 Amer. Jrnl. Theol. 13 317 The action of a completely self-determined being takes the form of the realization of an ideal self.

1987 E. L. Doctorow Jack London, Hemingway, & Constit. (1993) 128 The newly self-determined America was showing its strength and pride as a republic of hard work.

2015 A. Mage tr. J. Fisch Right Self-determination of Peoples i. 19 The self-determined individual is a free individual, and the self-determined people are a free people.

1662 Z. Crofton Hard Way to Heaven 34 Worshipping the true God with his own Ordinances, as to the matter, but by a self-consecrated Ministry in self determined places.

1775 A. M. Toplady Scheme Christian Necessity v. 93 Faith hangs, not upon Man's Self-determination, but on God's own Self-determined Election.

1778 R. Markham Serm. preached at St Clement Dane's 13 A Principle of wilful, and self-determined Destruction.

1836 Amer. Ann. Educ. & Instr. Aug. 344 If a mother..will not let him have..his own self-moved and self-determined recovery,..long, long must it be, if ever, before she will be delighted with his bold and manly step.

1838 Universalist & Ladies' Repository Apr. 401/1 They maintain, that natural death is a result consequent upon the creature's own voluntary, self-determined, evil actions!

1912 Elem. School Teacher 13 78 Mme. Montessori sees self-development coming through the conquest of self-determined ends.

1980 T. Gitlin Whole World is Watching 293 ‘New Left’ was another self-determined term, first used by SDS in 1963, which deliberately adapted it from the British New Left of the late fifties.

2012 New Yorker 19 Nov. 86/3 The Mad Pride movement which advocates a low-intervention, self-determined approach to schizophrenia and other mental conditions.

1860 W. G. T. Shedd in tr. St. Augustine Confessions Introd. p. xxxi No will that self-determinedly apostatizes can be again the sound and strong faculty, in reference to good, that it was before apostasy, except through the intervention of Divine renewing power.

1910 E. A. Sharpe Found. Stones of Success II. xiv. 189 This successful juvenile court judge holds that few children are self-determinedly bad.

2011 Sunday Mirror (Eire ed.) (Nexis) 22 May 2 Why..ignore people's right to end their life self-determinedly in a safe and dignified manner at their very homes and..[force] them to travel abroad instead?