terminus ad quem
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of terminus ad quem
literally: the end to which
Example Sentences
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Secondly, we think that the adversaries acknowledge that the remission of sins is either a part, or the end, or, to speak in their manner, the terminus ad quem of repentance.
From Apology of the Augsburg Confession by Melanchthon, Philipp
The two termini of the importation, here spoken of, are a foreign country and the American Union—the first the terminus a quo, the second the terminus ad quem.
From American Eloquence, Volume 2 Studies In American Political History (1896) by Johnston, Alexander
A terminus ad quem is essential to the perfection of exercise, bodily or mental.
From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
The fact is that the movement, as a movement with a terminus ad quem, was fairly beaten by a power fit to be matched with Rome herself—John Bullism.
From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Birrell, Augustine
There are two passages which give us the latter year as the terminus ad quem, viz. c.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" by Various
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