ad rem
Example Sentences
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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)
To speak ad rem, who is free from passion?
From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton, Robert
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
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
