ARBITRARY
\ˈɑːbɪtɹəɹi], \ˈɑːbɪtɹəɹi], \ˈɑː_b_ɪ_t_ɹ_ə_ɹ_i]\
Definitions of ARBITRARY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Exercised according to one's own will or caprice, and therefore conveying a notion of a tendency to abuse the possession of power.
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Despotic; absolute in power; bound by no law; harsh and unforbearing; tyrannical; as, an arbitrary prince or government.
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Exercised according to one's own will or caprice, and therefore conveying a notion of a tendency to abuse the possession of power.
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Despotic; absolute in power; bound by no law; harsh and unforbearing; tyrannical; as, an arbitrary prince or government.
By Noah Webster.
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Not fixed by rule or law; capricious; unreasonable; despotic.
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Arbitrarily.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Despotick, absolute; depending on no rule, capricious.
By Thomas Sheridan
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