Definition of Matter-of-course

1. Adjective. Expected or depended upon as a natural or logical outcome.

Similar to: Expected

Lexicographical Neighbors of Matter-of-course

matsutake
matsutakes
matsyendra
matt
matt-up
matta
mattacin
mattagamite
mattages
mattamore
matte
matte up
matted
mattedly
matter
matter-of-course (current term)
matter-of-fact
matter-of-factly
matter-of-factness
matter of course
matter of fact
matter of law
matter of record
matter of time
matter to
mattered
mattereth
matterful
mattering
matterless

Literary usage of Matter-of-course

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"... in that stage of the proceedings, as a matter of course. The Edward, 1 Wheat. 261; The Marianna Flora, 11 Wheat. 1 ; Conk. Adm. 606. ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Schools, аз a matter of course, are maintained at all the missions, those at St. Ignatius particularly being models. The Ursulines have a convent at St. ..."

3. The Life of John Jay: With Selections from His Correspondence and by William Jay (1833)
"... but in such a manner as to be and to appear as a matter of favour, and not as a matter of course. I have the honour to be, Your excellency's most ..."

4. A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators by Edward Vaughan Williams, Walter Vere Vaughan Williams (1877)
"... ancillary probate or grant of administration in a foreign country is usually admitted, by the comity of nations, as a matter of course, (7) yet this new ..."

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