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ad rem

[ad rem, ahd rem] / æd ˈrɛm, ɑd ˈrɛm /






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"Nihil ad rem!" cried Mr. Skinner; "it's this man I want to ask."

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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.

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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.

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I might write would seem as nihil ad rem, as if I were writing of an island in the Pacific.

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In writing, he thinks of nothing but his idea and the person whom he addresses: ad rem et ad hominem.

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