ad extremum

American

[ahd ek-stray-moom, ad ek-stree-muhm] / ɑd ɛkˈstreɪ mʊm, æd ɛkˈstri məm /

adverb

Latin.

to the extreme; at last; finally.

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ad extremum

The old horse should be left to graze out his last days, Ne peccet ad extremum ridendus.

From The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope

It would be well that each of us should say to himself, "Solve senescentem mature sanus equum, ne Peccet ad extremum ridendus."

From Autobiography of Anthony Trollope by Anthony Trollope

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