[a. Gr. Θέμις, goddess of law and order, Justice personified.]
1. Name of the ancient Greek goddess of law and justice; hence, Law or Justice personified.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Themis, the Godesse of Justice, that gave out Oracles at Bœotia.
1784. Cowper, Task, III. 257. Such thine, in whom Our British Themis gloried with just cause, Immortal Hale.
1880. J. Payn, Confid. Agent, iv. She found a rival, not in Themis, but in Isabel Thurlow.
2. Astron. Name of the twenty-fourth of the Asteroids, discovered 5 April 1853 by De Gasparis.
