zygnomic
zygnomic adjective: directly involved or related.
Adjective
zygnomic (comparative more zygnomic, superlative most zygnomic)
- Directly involved or related.
- A mesonomic relation is that kind of legal relation which in a jural series may result in the creation, alteration, or destruction of a zygnomic relation.1932, Illinois Law Review - Volume 26, page 860
- In Kocourek's terminology, therefore, the offer is the exercise of a "mesonomic" power — not totally outside the law ("anomic") nor already coercive ("zygnomic"), but potentially capable of becoming coercive.1939, Roscoe Pound, Nathan Isaacs, William Waite Beardsley, The National Law Library: Property, page 22
Examples of zygnomic in a sentence
- Legally this power was recognized (was made a zygnomic power) (') by revolutionary governments to be exercised against their enemies.1971, Revista del Colegio de Abogados de Puerto Rico, page 235:
- In Professor Kocourek's newer terminology the claim descends from the zygnomic to the mesonomic plane on the running of the Statute.2020, Sovereignty Education and Defense Ministry (SEDM), Legal Fictions, Form #09.071, page 50:
Forms of zygnomic
| comparative | more zygnomic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most zygnomic |
Origin of zygnomic
Coined by Robert L. Kocourek as zyg- + -nomic
Questions about zygnomic
- What does zygnomic mean?
- Zygnomic means directly involved or related.
- How do you use zygnomic in a sentence?
- Legally this power was recognized (was made a zygnomic power) (') by revolutionary governments to be exercised against their enemies.
- What part of speech is zygnomic?
- Zygnomic is an adjective.
Words near zygnomic in the dictionary
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