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

And the Abbot said the verse Benedicamus Patrem et Filium cum Sancto Spiritu, and the prayer Deus ad quem digne laudandum, and they all returned thanksgiving to the Lord.

From Chronicle of the Cid by Southey, Robert

Cur non in illo Liparæ tumulo, ampla & profunda voragine hiante, teste Aristotele, ad quem non tutò noctu accedatur: ex quo Cymbalorum sonitus, crotalorum boatus, cum insolitis & inconditis cachinnis exaudiantur?

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Hakluyt, Richard

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

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 Huxley, Thomas Henry

The strength of his system lies in the principles, the origin, the terminus a quo of his thought; for us the strength is in the outcome, the upshot, the terminus ad quem.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William