mutatis mutandis
advUK /m(j)uːˌtɑːtɪs muːˈtandɪs/ · US /m(j)uˌtɑtəs m(j)uˈtɑndəs/
Etymology Unadapted borrowing from Late Latin mūtātīs mūtandīs (“with [the things] to be changed having been changed”).
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Law Especially With the necessary changes being made; with the necessary modifications; with such changes as are necessary to ensure congruence.
- And like billes, mutatis mutandis, were put In ayenst Gloucestre & Worcestrea. 1525, The Coventry Leet Book, page 595:
- 26 May 1564. M. to Mr. Tipton, and another (mutatis mutandis) to Mr. Cuerton. Pp. 3.1863, H.M.'s Public Record Office, Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, of the Reign of Elizabeth, volume VII, page 141:
2 more examples
- What is said of the army here is to be taken also to apply, mutatis mutandis, to the air force and the navy.1962, Samuel Edward Finer, chapter 2, in The Man on Horseback: The Role of the Military in Politics:
- Similar considerations apply, mutatis mutandis, to the example of nightmare imagined by Brown.1962, Norman Malcolm, chapter 15, in Dreaming: