quoad hoc

American  

[kwaw-ahd hohk, kwoh-ad hok] / ˈkwɔ ɑd ˈhoʊk, ˈkwoʊ æd ˈhɒk /

adverb

Latin.

1. as much as this; to this extent.

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Example Sentences

They have thus become quoad hoc, practical atheists.

From Project Gutenberg

Quoad, kwō′ad, prep. as far as, to this extent.—Quoad hoc, as far as this; Quoad omnia, in respect of all things; Quoad sacra, as far as concerns sacred matters, as a parish disjoined for ecclesiastical purposes only.

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His advice, quoad hoc, seemed uniformly trustworthy.

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Does any person here deny the proposition, that the people of a territory, in the formation of a State Constitution, are to that extent—quoad hoc—sovereign and uncontrollable, though still owing obedience to the provisional government of the territory?

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But where some collateral matter arises out of the general words, and happens to be unreasonable; there the judges are in decency to conclude that this consequence was not foreseen by the parliament, and therefore they are at liberty to expound the statute by equity, and only quoad hoc disregard it.

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