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1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah iii. 51 He doth these things of his absolute power; by the singlenesse of his own will; by the sufficiencie of his nature, without reference to any other.

1611 W. Sclater Key to Key of Script. 125 Whether their worship had the terme in the images without reference to the prototypa, the things which their images represented.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. vi. 210 To talk of specifick Differences in Nature, without reference to general Ideas and Names, is to talk unintelligibly.

1740 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature III. §2. i. 30 'Tis only when a character is considered in general, without reference to our particular interest, that it causes such a feeling or sentiment, as denominates it morally good or evil.

1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. i. 6 The word right can have a meaning without reference to utility.

1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. I. 74/2 I will tell you what is applicable on all occasions..without reference to weak or common minds.

1877 Cassell's Techn. Educator III. 373/1 By these means the whole of the area treated as a plane surface—that is, without reference to its differences of level—will be mapped.

1921 Proc. 41st Ann. Meeting Soc. Promotion Agric. Sci., 1920 (U.S.) 117 The soil scientist must be concerned primarily with the accumulation or assimilation of knowledge concerning the soil without reference to the use to be made of that knowledge.

1996 I. Donnachie et al. Studying Sc. Hist., Lit. & Culture 93 It is difficult to speak of the merits of the songs without reference to the music, as the merit is in the totality.