dictum

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Immediately both Fleming’s Dictum and Nance’s Law struck at the same time.

From Salon • Jul. 8, 2017

Below the prologue the writer has added the couplet: Th' old wits are gone: looke for noe new thing by us, For nullum est jam Dictum quod non sit dictum prius.

From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.

Dictum, dik′tum, n. something said: a saying: an authoritative saying:—pl.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

When he had clearly shown his superiority, he offered the garrison of Ely the terms of the Dictum de Kenilworth.

From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by Hunt, William

The object of reduction is to extend the sanction of the Dictum de Omni et Nullo to the imperfect figures, which do not obviously conform to it.

From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph