a tergo
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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In both cases there is a vis a tergo designated by the vague term "spontaneity," which we shall attempt to make clear later, and a vis a fronte, an attracting movement.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen
In all these cases the movements are discharged fatally by the vis a tergo which the stimulus exerts upon a nervous system framed to respond in just that way.
From Problems of Conduct by Drake, Durant
The unity is derived from a vis a tergo: it is given at the start as an impulsion, not placed at the end as an attraction.
From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur
The fetich doctor and fetich belief were a vis a tergo with the native horde.
From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill
This was well for Beetle, since Stalky pinched him a tergo.
From Stalky & Co. by Kipling, Rudyard
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