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arbitrary

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arbitrary
—arbitrarily /ahr"bi trer'euh lee, ahr'bi trair"-/, adv. —arbitrariness, n.
/ahr"bi trer'ee/, adj., n., pl. arbitraries.
adj.
1. subject to individual will or judgment without restriction; contingent solely upon one's discretion: an arbitrary decision.
2. decided by a judge or arbiter rather than by a law or statute.
3. having unlimited power; uncontrolled or unrestricted by law; despotic; tyrannical: an arbitrary government.
4. capricious; unreasonable; unsupported: an arbitrary demand for payment.
5. Math. undetermined; not assigned a specific value: an arbitrary constant.
n.
6. arbitraries, Print. (in Britain) peculiar (def. 9).
[1400-50; late ME < L arbitrarius uncertain (i.e., depending on an arbiter's decision). See ARBITER, -ARY]

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