The decree is nisi and not absolute.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : a decree nisi.    From Dictionary.com. 

"Court of original jurisdiction" is often substituted for the term nisi prius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sui Generis--a New York law blog:] Reference

Pauline privilege always include the phrase nisi prima voluerit converti.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference

De mortuis nil nisi bonum, but that was ridiculous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elevating Newt, Depreciating Chesty And Other Won] Reference

"Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus Inciderit.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Morals] Reference

Quid profecto non diceret nisi se virginem ante vovisset.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

= Compare ii 37 'hic mea cui recitem nisi flauis scripta Corallis'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference

Nam quid ea memorem, quae nisi his qui videre nemini credibilia sunt.    From Wordnik.com.  [C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino] Reference

'Discedo Alcaeus puncto illius; ille meo quis? quis nisi Callimachus?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

'Caesar in arma furens nullas nisi sanguine fuso gaudet habere vias'; v. 242.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

Amen, Amen dico tibi, nisi quis renatus fuerit denuo, non potest videre regnum Dei.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy] Reference

"Scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter." is the great truth and motto of this our century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference

De Q quoque sufficienter supra tractatum est, quae nisi eandem vim haberet quam C. Marius Victorinus says.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it] Reference

Festum Sanctæ Virginis Genitricis dies, festivitas matris -- nam quod festum est matris nisi incarnatio Verbi?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

Quae nisi quaesita erunt, nisi vindicatum in noxios, quid erit reliquum, nisi ut illis, qui ea fecere, obedientes vivamus?.    From Wordnik.com.  [C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino] Reference

Ceterum mihi in dies magis animus accenditur, quum considero, quae condicio vitae futura sit, nisi nosmet ipsi vindicamus in libertatem.    From Wordnik.com.  [C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino] Reference

"De mortuis nil nisi bonum" is a principle of conduct dating back to Him who of old declared burial of the dead a corporal work of mercy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greater Love] Reference