a tergo
Americanadverb
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In both cases there is a vis a tergo designated by the vague term "spontaneity," which we shall attempt to make clear later, and a vis a fronte, an attracting movement.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron
The unity is derived from a vis a tergo: it is given at the start as an impulsion, not placed at the end as an attraction.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
In these cases the feeble vis a tergo yields readily to those perturbations of vaso-motor influence which occasion passive blood-accumulations in the small veins and capillaries.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
This was well for Beetle, since Stalky pinched him a tergo.
From Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling
The fetich doctor and fetich belief were a vis a tergo with the native horde.
From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Robert Hamill Nassau
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