ad quem

American  

[ahd kwem, ad kwem] / ɑd ˈkwɛm, æd ˈkwɛm /

Latin.

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

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ad quem

Progress does not shut out finality; it only makes each new finality a point of departure for a new adventure, not a terminus ad quem for a conclusive stop.

From Christianity and Progress by Harry Emerson Fosdick

Perhaps less obviously, by extending Dryden's account to the present, Harte makes The Dunciad not only a chronological terminus ad quem but, far more important, the fruit of centuries of slowly accumulating mastery and wisdom.

From An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad by Walter Harte

He fails in short to distinguish between taking the world's perfection as a necessary principle, and taking it only as a possible terminus ad quem.

From Pragmatism by William James

And it was a vital question for them to determine at what point of time, between this terminus a quo and that terminus ad quem miracles came to an end.

From Lectures and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

There are two passages which give us the latter year as the terminus ad quem, viz. c.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" by Various