Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Customary or conventional: applied to the present mode of English spelling: opposed to Glossic or phonetic.
  • noun The customary or conventional English spelling. See Glossic.
  • Of or pertaining to a nome. See nome.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Customary; ordinary; -- applied to the usual English spelling, in distinction from strictly phonetic methods.

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  • adjective dated customary; ordinary; applied to the usual English spelling, in distinction from strictly phonetic methods.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek, from a word meaning "law, custom".

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Examples

  • Are they identity relations that are contingently necessary or will some sort of weaker relation, such as nomic coextensivity, suffice?

    Intertheory Relations in Physics Batterman, Robert 2007

  • Stated more generally, both the DN and IS models, share the common idea that, as Salmon (1989) puts it, “the essence of scientific explanation can be described as nomic expectability ” that is expectability on the basis of lawful connections” (1989, p. 57).

    Scientific Explanation Woodward, James 2009

  • Auto nomic urge, like a precious calico cat who starts power sneezing, fourteen straight in a lick, it's sick and you can't help but worry.

    Lunch @ Chili's Is On Dollar Bill Dennis Mahagin 2011

  • Economists warn it could put a brake on the euro zone's eco nomic recovery.

    ECB Overnight Deposit Hits Record High 2010

  • No one, not even the unhinged anti-Muslim types on the right, is blaming Muslims for America's current eco nomic difficulties.

    Only Nixon Could Go to China 2010

  • A law is a second-order relation of nomic necessitation (N, for short) holding among two or more first-order properties.

    A New Weapon Against Freedom and ID: Volksverhetzung 2007

  • If N-relation accounts are on the right track, there is a reasonably rich realm of properties that is structured by one or more nomic relations.

    A New Weapon Against Freedom and ID: Volksverhetzung 2007

  • That is true, we see that x exists (empirical correlation), yet we don't know the cause of x (nomic necessity-that y always causes x).

    Critical Thinking Skills 2007

  • Fulks isn't sure whether he'll release the music on CD, but says this is not just an eco-nomic experiment.

    Pop’s Virtual Royalty 2009

  • And if the properties F and G stand in a nomic relation, then the properties themselves (and not merely their instances) are related in a law-like way.

    A New Weapon Against Freedom and ID: Volksverhetzung 2007

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