nihil ad rem

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I might write would seem as nihil ad rem, as if I were writing of an island in the Pacific.

From What I Remember, Volume 2 by Trollope, Thomas Adolphus

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

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 criticism is either incorrect or nihil ad rem.

From The Philosophy of the Conditioned by Mansel, Henry Longueville