ad rem
Example Sentences
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"Optume; but deliver yourself ad rem," he rejoined, alarmingly pacified.
From The Egoist by Meredith, George
And certainly this intimation from Suffolk Street, which might be very useful to a young barrister preparing for the circuit, is now to the "matter in hand" nihil ad rem.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various
Quare cum animum Euangelica lectione ritè instituisset, transtulit sua studia ad rem Medicam, artem imprimis liberali ingenio dignam.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Hakluyt, Richard
In writing, he thinks of nothing but his idea and the person whom he addresses: ad rem et ad hominem.
From What is Property? by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)
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
