ad rem
Example Sentences
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Fiddlesticks! it's nothing ad rem, I tell you!
From The Village Notary by E?tv?s, J?zsef
His plea or pretence, that he was sheltered by the superior grossness of Ariosto and La Fontaine, of Prior and of Fielding, is nihil ad rem, if it is not insincere.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
The question, "Would a novelist in altered circumstances have given us more or better novels?" is sometimes treated as ultra vires or nihil ad rem on the critic's part.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George
This is a trick which ought to be one of the first; it is, at bottom, an expedient by which an argumentum ad hominem is put forward as an argumentum ad rem.
From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; the Art of Controversy by Saunders, T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey)
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
