nihil ad rem

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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