ad rem
Example Sentences
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Sed ego adulescentulus initio sicuti plerique studio ad rem publicam latus sum, ibique mihi multa advorsa fuere.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by Middleton, George
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
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
To speak ad rem, who is free from passion?
From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton, Robert
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
