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ad quem

[ ahd kwem; English ad kwem ]

Latin.
  1. at or to which; the end toward which something tends.


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Example Sentences

Ad quem advenientem concursus ingens factus est; effusa non ex urbibus modo, sed etiam ex agris multitudo viam obsidebat.

Ad quem advenientem concursus ingns factus est; effsa nn ex urbibus modo, sed etiam ex agrs multitd viam obsidbat.

We do not know either the terminus a quo from which or the terminus ad quem to which the writer reckoned.

It will be observed that in each case there is a certain reticence or vagueness as to the terminus ad quem.

Sensations are the stable rock, the terminus a quo and the terminus ad quem of thought.

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