ad rem
Example Sentences
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To speak ad rem, who is free from passion?
From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton, Robert
Nihil ad rem, indeed!" hiccoughed Zatonyi, "are not we in court-martial assembled?
From The Village Notary by E?tv?s, J?zsef
This criticism is either incorrect or nihil ad rem.
From The Philosophy of the Conditioned by Mansel, Henry Longueville
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)
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
