terminus ad quem
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of terminus ad quem
literally: the end to which
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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
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
The terminus ad quem is less certain—-iron does not begin to be used for weapons in the Aegean till after Period III.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
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 Philipp Melanchthon
Perhaps less obviously, by extending Dryden's account to the present, Harte makes The Dunciad not only a chronological terminus ad quem but, far more important, the fruit of centuries of slowly accumulating mastery and wisdom.
From An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad by Walter Harte
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