nomistic (nomistik)

[ With regard to the ethical religions the question has been mooted - and a rather puzzling question it is - What right have we to divide them into nomistic or nomothetic communities, founded on a law or Holy Scripture, and universal or world religions, which start from principles and maxims, the latter being only three - Buddhism, Christianity, and Mohammedanism? Encyc. Brit., XX. 368. It would take too long in this place to analyze in nomo logical terms this remarkably opaque utterance. Westminster Rev., CXXVL. 126. Nomological psychology, the nomology of mind; the science of the laws by which the mental faculties are governed.