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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Example Sentences

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 Harte, Walter

Amicitia vera desiderat videre amicum et colloquiis mutuis gaudere facit, ad quem principaliter est amicitia; non autem ita, quod delectatio ex amici visione et perfruitione, finis amicitiae ponatur.”1077.Cfr.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur

Arguing then entirely from authority, we may put the terminus ad quem at about 130 A.D.

From The Gospels in the Second Century An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work Entitled 'Supernatural Religion' by Sanday, William

Condemned though they be by some thinkers, these sensations are the mother-earth, the anchorage, the stable rock, the first and last limits, the terminus a quo and the terminus ad quem of the mind.

From The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, James, and Dewey by Geyer, Delton Loring

Contemned though they may be by some thinkers, these sensations are the mother-earth, the anchorage, the stable rock, the first and last limits, the terminus a quo and the terminus ad quem of the mind.

From Personality in Literature by Scott-James, Rolfe Arnold