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Obiter dictum   Listen
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obiter dictum  n.  (pl. obiter dicta)  (Law), An incidental and collateral opinion uttered by a judge. See Dictum, n., 2 (a).






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"Obiter dictum" Quotes from Famous Books



... Greenway, from Kamilaroi baia, "to make," Mr. Hartland is by no means so sure of the sense of the name. It happens to be inconvenient to him! Let the names mean what they may, Mr. Hartland finds, in an obiter dictum of Mr. Howitt (before he was initiated), that Daramulun is said to have "died," and that his spirit is now aloft. Who says so, and where, we are not informed,(3) and the question ...
— Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1 • Andrew Lang

... &c v., intermediate, intermediary, intercalary, interstitial; embolismal^. parenthetical, episodic; mediterranean; intrusive; embosomed^; merged. Adv. between, betwixt; twixt; among, amongst; amid, amidst; mid, midst; in the thick of; betwixt and between; sandwich-wise; parenthetically, obiter dictum. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget



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