terminus ad quem
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of terminus ad quem
literally: the end to which
Example Sentences
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We must thus take the terminus ad quem for the quotation not later than 180 A.D.
From The Gospels in the Second Century An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work Entitled 'Supernatural Religion' by William Sanday
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 Augustine Birrell
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 Alexander Johnston
And it was a vital question for them to determine at what point of time, between this terminus a quo and that terminus ad quem miracles came to an end.
From Lectures and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley
Every tendency or movement presupposes a terminus a quo, from which it starts, and a terminus ad quem, to which it tends.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss
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