This should not surprise us who know that van Gogh wrote: 'To paint and to love women is incompatible'; van Gogh was right for himself, which does not mean that he was right for everybody, and I will not draw from hisdictum the probably incorrect conclusion that 'To paint and to love literature is incompatible.'
1949, Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart,Earth Abides:
[…]adictum which he had heard an economics professor once propound[…]
1951 July, “British Standard Locomotives”, inRailway Magazine, page438:
1. The utmost in steam producing capacity permitted by weight and dimensions; in other words, capacity to boil water—H. A. Ivatt's olddictum.
But this is not the philosophical revolution of which I speak. What Warhol'sdictum amounted to was that you cannottell when something is a work of art just by looking at it, for there is no particular way that art has to look.
A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.
The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.
“dictum”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“dictum”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"dictum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange,Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
