ad rem
Example Sentences
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He urged that negatives ad rem should be taken most carefully, and that, like the picture I showed him, they should be full of half-tone and detail, and yet have plenty of vigor.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 by Various
This criticism is either incorrect or nihil ad rem.
From The Philosophy of the Conditioned by Henry Longueville Mansel
We have a display of learning to little purpose, quotations from Latin and Greek, really "nihil ad rem;" the "φαντασιας" of the Greek, and "visiones" of the Romans.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 by Various
Fiddlesticks! it's nothing ad rem, I tell you!
From The Village Notary by J?zsef E?tv?s
As brevity is the soul of wit, so is it the soul of a business letter—the argument of which should be ad rem, to the matter; cum punctu, with point.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
