ad rem
Americanadjective
adverb
adjective
Etymology
Origin of ad rem
< Latin: literally, to the matter
Example Sentences
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This is a trick which ought to be one of the first; it is, at bottom, an expedient by which an argumentum ad hominem is put forward as an argumentum ad rem.
From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; the Art of Controversy by Saunders, T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey)
As brevity is the soul of wit, so is it the soul of a business letter—the argument of which should be ad rem, to the matter; cum punctu, with point.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
Eam igitur ad rem nihil poterit contingere optatius, vestra, clementissime Princeps Sereniss.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Hakluyt, Richard
We have a display of learning to little purpose, quotations from Latin and Greek, really "nihil ad rem;" the "φαντασιας" of the Greek, and "visiones" of the Romans.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 by Various
Pontifice rogatus, cum magna armatorum manu Ranulphum, ad rem Christianum iuuandam.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Hakluyt, Richard
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