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lawlike en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *lagą Old Norse lag Old Norse lǫgbor. Old English lagu Middle English lawe English law Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English lawlike From law + -like.

Meanings

1. Having characteristics of a law.
   • First there is the rather enormous inductive leap made by Newton when he assumes that the lawlike connection between accelerated motions and inertial forces holds at every place, at every time, and in the same manner always. 1977, Lawrence Sklar, Space, Time, and Spacetime, page 185:

Forms

Deriveds

unlawlike