obiter

Borrowed from Latin obiter.

obiter (not comparable)

1. (formal) Incidentally; in passing.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
     , New York, 2001, p.206:

     I will not here stand to discuss obiter, whether stars be causes, or signs; or to apologize for judicial astrology.

obiter (plural obiters)

1. (law) An obiter dictum; a statement from the bench commenting on a point of law which is not necessary for the judgment at hand and therefore has no judicial weight, as opposed to ratio decidendi.

• ratio decidendi, ratio

• brotie, torbie

From ob- + iter.

obiter (not comparable)

1. on the way
2. incidentally

• “obiter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “obiter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “obiter”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.