Definitions for nisi

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nisi ni·si

Spelling: [nahy-sahy, nee-see]

IPA: /ˈnaɪ saɪ, ˈni si/

Nisi is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in nisi (iins).

Definitions for nisi

adjective

1. not yet final or absolute (used, especially in law, to indicate that a judgment or decree will become final on a particular date unless set aside or invalidated by certain specified contingencies):

Origin of nisi

Latin: if not, unless (conjunction)

Examples for nisi

Semper in navi, nisi cum, uti dixi, excendimus ad Pembrochium.

Henry II puts it the other way, p. 220: 'nisi sunt in dominio meo.'

He was great at nisi prius and before an appellate tribunal.

Non super eum ibimus, nec super eum mittemus, nisi per legale judicium parium suorum, vel per legem terr.

He was great both at nisi prius and before an appellate tribunal.

Quid jam reliquum est tibi, nisi ut nomen commutes et ex Scalifero fias Furcifer?

Non aliam scilicet ob causam, nisi quia gaudium magnum evangelizare veniebat.

The natural consequence of this is that we cannot get out of "nisi prius."

No man shall marry until he be 25, no woman till she be 20, nisi alitur dispensatum fuerit.

Neque enim vel factum aliud ullum vel qulibet existere poterit voluntas, nisi quam nescia falli providentia divina prsenserit.