a. [f. AUTONOMY: see -IC.] Of, pertaining to, or possessing, autonomy; self-governing, independent.
1832. Austin, Jurispr., I. v. 185. Laws autonomic or autonomical are laws made by subjects as private persons in pursuance of legal rights.
1854. Hickok, Sci. Mind, 207. Reason is thus ever autonomic; carrying its own law within itself.
