quoad hoc
Americanadverb
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He was to act as Napoleon's medical and, quoad hoc, confidential attendant, but he was not to be subservient to him or dependent on him.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
By extending the laws of Georgia over the country and people of the Cherokees, the constitution, laws, and treaties, of the United States, were quoad hoc set aside.
From Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. by Josiah Quincy
They have thus become quoad hoc, practical atheists.
From The Portland Sketch Book by Various
But having accidentally chanced to speak of a certain complicated political question, I found that quoad hoc my friend's intellect was that of a baby.
From The Recreations of a Country Parson by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd
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