terminus ad quem
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of terminus ad quem
literally: the end to which
Example Sentences
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This is the only terminus ad quem, so far as I am aware, which is absolutely decisive; and it would allow of a ministry of eight years.
From Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" by Lightfoot, Joseph Barber
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
Condemned though they be by some thinkers, these sensations are the mother-earth, the anchorage, the stable rock, the first and last limits, the terminus a quo and the terminus ad quem of the mind.
From The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, James, and Dewey by Geyer, Delton Loring
Contemned though they may be by some thinkers, these sensations are the mother-earth, the anchorage, the stable rock, the first and last limits, the terminus a quo and the terminus ad quem of the mind.
From Personality in Literature by Scott-James, Rolfe Arnold
The main object of our trip down the River of Barks—the terminus ad quem of the expedition, so to speak—was a bear.
From The Ruling Passion; tales of nature and human nature by Van Dyke, Henry
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