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